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TechEd North America 2014
This year TechEd North America is happening between 12 May and 15 May, at Houston. There are some interesting sessions around Backup and Disaster Recovery – so I would highly encourage you all to...
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See you at TechEd North America!
Here's a quick intro to the Hyper-V people attending TechEd North America in Houston next week. I'm also posting booth times for each of us.The booth's official name is: Datacenter &...
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Excluding virtual disks in Hyper-V Replica
Since its introduction in Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V Replica has provided a way for users to exclude specific virtual disks from being replicated. This option is rarely exercised but can have a...
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Hyper-V Replica trouble-shooting wiki
We are happy to announce the availability of Hyper-V Replica trouble-shooting Wiki here:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21948.hyper-v-replica-troubleshooting-guide.aspxThis...
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Replication Health Mailer
One of our Engineers, Sangeeth, has come up with a nifty PowerShell script which mails the replication health in a host or in a cluster in a nice dashboard format. We thought it would be of help to...
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Upcoming Preview of 'Disaster Recovery to Azure' Functionality in Hyper-V...
In the coming weeks, we will Preview functionality within Hyper-V Recovery Manager to enable Microsoft Azure as a Disaster Recovery point for virtualized workloads. The new functionality will add...
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Application consistent recovery points with Windows Server 2008/2003 guest OS
I recently had a conversation with a customer around a very interesting problem, and the insights that were gained there are worth sharing. The issue was about VSS errors popping up in the guest event...
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Disaster Recovery to Microsoft Azure – Part 1
Drum roll please! We are super excited to announce the availability of the preview bits of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) which enables you to replicate Hyper-V VMs to Microsoft Azure for business...
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Disaster Recovery to Microsoft Azure – Part 2
Continuing from the previous blog - check out the recent TechEd NA 2014 talk @ https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/DCIM-B322 which includes a cool demo of this product. Love...
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Azure Site Recovery - FAQ
Quick post to clarify some frequently asked questions on the newly announced Azure Site Recovery service which enables you to protect your Hyper-V VMs to Microsoft Azure. The FAQ will not address every...
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Azure Site Recovery – case of the “network connection failure”
Luís Caldeira is one of our early adopters who had pinged us with an interesting error. Thanks for reaching out to us Luís and sharing the details of your setup. I am sure this article will come handy...
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Out-of-band Initial Replication (OOB IR) and Deduplication
A recent conversation with a customer brought out the question: What is the best way to create an entire Replica site from scratch? At the surface this seems simple enough – configure initial...
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Azure Site Recovery adds InMage Scout to Its Portfolio for Any Virtual and...
Azure Site Recovery with Hyper-V Replica already supports the ability to set up disaster recovery between your two Windows Server 2012+ Hyper-V data centers, or between your Windows Server 2012 R2...
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ExpressRoute + ASR = Efficient DR solution
Microsoft recently announced the availability of Azure ExpressRoute which enabled our customers to create a private connection between their on-premises to Microsoft Azure. This ensured that the data...
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Migrate Windows Server 2012R2 Virtualized Workloads to Microsoft Azure with...
Azure Site Recovery not only enables a low-cost, high-capability, CAPEX-saving, and OPEX-optimizing Disaster Recovery strategy for your IT Infrastructure, it can also help you quickly and easily...
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Share your feedback!
Are you a System Administrator or Security Analyst? Would you like to influence the future of securing your virtualized infrastructure? If this sounds interesting to you, Microsoft Windows Server and...
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Azure Site Recovery: Data Security and Privacy
Microsoft is committed to ensuring the Privacy and Security of our customer’s data whenever it crosses on-premises boundaries and into Microsoft Azure. Azure Site Recovery, a cloud-based Disaster...
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Networking 101 for Disaster Recovery to Microsoft Azure using Site Recovery
Getting the networking requirements right is a critical piece in ensuring Disaster Recovery readiness of your business critical workloads. When an administrator evaluates the disaster recovery...
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Announcing the GA of Disaster Recovery to Azure using Azure Site Recovery
I am excited to announce the GA of the Disaster Recovery to Azure using Azure Site Recovery. In addition to enabling replication to and recovery in Microsoft Azure, ASR enables automated protection of...
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Hyper-V integration components are available through Windows Update
Starting in Windows Technical Preview, Hyper-V integration components will be delivered directly to virtual machines using Windows Update.Integration components (also called integration services) are...
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