Introduction

Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 come with tools and solutions to make sure that your virtual machines will be up, running, and highly available. Components such as Failover Cluster can ensure that your servers are accessible, even in case of failures. However, disasters can occur and bring all the servers and services offline. Natural disasters, viruses, data corruption, human errors, and many other factors can make your entire system unavailable.

People think that High Available (HA) is a solution for Disaster Recovery (DR) and that they can use it to replace DR. Actually HA is a component of a DR plan, which consists of process, policies, procedures, backup and recovery plan, documentation, tests, Service Level Agreements (SLA), best practices, and so on. The objective of a DR is simply to have business continuity in case of any disaster.

In a Hyper-V environment, we have options to utilize the core components, such as Hyper-V Replica, for a DR plan, which replicates your virtual...