Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete the tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to ensure that the technical requirements from Chapter 1, Exam Overview and the Current State of Cloud Workflows, have been completed in full. Many aspects of Hyper-V Replica require a rigorous amount of detail and require infrastructure planning and configuration time for both initial protection as well as ongoing replication and protection. We will focus on the requirements, best practices, and high-level concepts in this chapter, and will be primarily reviewing areas of the Azure portal environment to follow the walk-throughs throughout this chapter, aligning with the AZ-801 exam objectives.

Let’s begin with a review of what Hyper-V Replica provides to assist with business continuity and disaster recovery services.