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Folks in the USA south are fully aware that a hurricane<\/a> is bearing down on them. This is not a new experience for New Orleans. Mandatory evacuations are in place in some parts. This is exactly the scenario when a planned failover is best used.<\/p>\n Weather forecasts have predicted the onset of the hurricane and a likely trajectory. Now is the time to perform that planned failover and have the VMs up and running in the DR site. Benefits? <\/p>\n The dependency on the virtualisation administrator is greatly lessened with a planned failover already done. To be quite heartless about it, the impact on the company will be lessened if the virtualisation admins are killed or are trapped by the disaster.<\/p>\n It is possible to orchestrate\/order the VMs. Some want to have a go about the lack of System Center 2012 SP1. Pfft! System Center 2012 is nice, but don\u2019t need it. A few lines of PowerShell and I have all the orchestration that I need. I\u2019ve already written\/proven it and I\u2019m no PowerShell guru.<\/p>\n Hyper-V Replica allows you to do: Test failover: bring online copies of the replica VMs in the DR site, ideally on isolated virtual switches to test without interfering with production systems. Unplanned failover: An unexpected disaster such as an earthquake, tsunami, or fire, wipes out the building\/site. You failover the VMs, losing maybe up to … Continue reading “Using Hyper-V Replica Before The Disaster”<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,118],"class_list":["post-13384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n