Fortunately, Hyper-V offers a replica feature that's well suited for helping smaller organizations improve their disaster readiness.

Hyper-V Replica, one of many operational and performance improvements to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012, allows users to replicate virtual machines over slow, unreliable network links.

The Hyper-V replica feature is primarily thought of as a protective mechanism for organizations that lack the budget for a full-blown Hyper-V server. The replica feature maintains a nearly up-to ...

The company decides to get a second hypervisor and deploy Hyper-V replica. Last I heard this environment had been failed over 3 times in the 4 years its been in place and Exchange/Outlook/AD ...

The Hyper-V Replica Capacity Planner. Failing Over Hyper-V Replica provides different types of failover, depending on your situation. For testing, you can do a test failover which will start the VM on ...

Hello all, I would like to upgrade a HyperV replica host machine that is in use which requires it to be powered down, is this going to horribly break all the replication or will it resume ...

So what makes me think Hyper-V is ready to make a significant move in the rankings? Well, there will be significant enhancements in Windows 8 Server. These may not surpass VMware’s functionality ...

Microsoft’s virtualization product, Hyper-V, is bundled with Windows Server 2012, and it offers the ability to create replicas of the virtual machines (VMs) and have them backed up continuously, which ...

Replica is a feature of Hyper-V itself so Finn is right in that the VMware option costs more. “SRM is not included in any edition of vSphere and is sold separately,” Chuang says.

The Hyper-V Replica technology in Windows Server 8 will support workloads on more than 16 virtualized processors, Microsoft officials said.