This session was presented at Reboot IT conference in Bangalore, India. This session intends to introduce the Hyper-V Replica feature and the related technologies such as Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager.

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Hyper-V Replica
Ravikanth Chaganti
MVP, Windows PowerShell
Founder, PowerShell Magazine
Founder, PowerShell Learning
@Ravikanth

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Agenda
• Introduction
• Architecture and Components
• Demo
• Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica
• Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Azure)
• Key Takeaways

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Before We Get Started …
• High Availability vs Disaster Recovery
• RPO and RTO
• Synchronous vs Asynchronous replication

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Introduction
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
solution
• Enabled using Windows Server 2012 (R2)
components
• Provides near-synchronous replication of virtual
machines
• Prerequisites
• Windows Server 2012 (R2) Hyper-V
• Network connectivity!
• Certificates (optional)

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Component Architecture

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Communication Architecture

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Terminology
• Primary and Replica Servers
• Planned Failover
• Test Failover
• Failover
• Standard Replica
• Application-Consistent Replica
• Extended Replica
• Hyper-V Replica Broker

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Demo
Replica Configuration, Planned Failover, and Replica Monitoring

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Capacity Planner
• Free tool to design Server, Storage, and Network
Infrastructure
• Monitors actual production environment
• Very less overhead (~2%)

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Hyper-V Recovery Manager
• Azure Service
• Orchestrated Protection and recovery for private
clouds
• Automated Replication
• Continuous Health Monitoring
• Orchestrated Recovery
• Requires SC VMM on-premise
• Pricing
• Pay as you go: $16 / VM / Month (billed in units of
average daily)
• Monthly Pay

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Takeaways
• Plan Replica deployment
• Not all applications support replica
• Evaluate Azure HRM