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<\/p>\nI must be nuts; we\u2019re a nearly month from the release candidate and I\u2019m attempting to blog on this stuff <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about DR and how to approach it with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. There is no one right solution. In fact, we have lots and lots of options thanks to VMs just being files. Yup, thanks to VHDX scaling out to 64 TB, the last reasonable reason to use passthrough disk (other than to get that last 2 or so percentage points of performance) are dead. That makes even the biggest of VMs \u201ceasy\u201d to replicate.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s look at 2 approaches from a very high altitude level. An approach I\u2019m seeing quite a bit for cross-campus or short range DR plans is to build a stretch cluster. The usual approach is to use something like a HP P4000 SAN and stretch it between two sites. A single Hyper-V cluster is built, stretching across the WAN link.<\/p>\n
SAN-SAN replication<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s not a cheap solution and it comes with complexities \u2013 and that\u2019s true no matter what virtualisation you use:<\/p>\n The above solution is something I see more and more, even in medium sized sites. It\u2019s complex, it\u2019s pricey, and very often they are struggling with getting it to work even in testing, let alone in the worst day of their professional careers.<\/p>\n I recently listed to a RunAs Radio podcast where the guest spoke about his preference for VMware SRM for DR replication. I can understand why. Software replication can stretch much greater distances. You aren\u2019t as beholden to the storage vendor as before. Hyper-V Replica<\/a> is surely going to have the same impact \u2026 and more \u2026 without costing you hundreds of dollars\/euros\/pounds\/etc on a per VM basis like SRM does:<\/p>\n Hyper-V Replica<\/em><\/p>\n Clinging to his overpriced DR with his cold dead hands because he thinks Stevie B. wants to steal his brainwaves<\/em><\/p>\n I must be nuts; we\u2019re a nearly month from the release candidate and I\u2019m attempting to blog on this stuff I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about DR and how to approach it with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. There is no one right solution. In fact, we have lots and lots of options thanks to VMs … Continue reading “Choosing A Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V DR Architecture”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[61,181,118],"class_list":["post-12536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-dr","tag-hyper-v","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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