Redmond

Using Hyper-V Replication to Recover from a Data Loss Event

This morning I made a seriously bone headed move. I've got a project that I have been intermittently working on for the better part of a week. I wrapped the project up this morning, and while removing ...
techtarget

Manually initiate the Hyper-V replication failover process

To ensure Hyper-V replication failover will go according to plan, admins need to not only select a recovery point, but also run tests to make sure the desired recovery point is usable. Then they can ...
Redmond

Taking Hyper-V Health Monitoring to the Next Level, Part 1

Hyper-V health monitoring should assess failover readiness, not just replication status. PowerShell scoring estimates VM failover success using replication health and detected issues. Replication ...
Ars Technica

Mapping LUNs to Hyper-V Failover Cluster

I would like to use thin provisioning for hosting VMs for Hyper-V. My prior SAN did not allow for this at all so I just setup fixed size VHD files per Microsoft’s suggestion. Most of the space is ...
techtarget

Live-migrate Hyper-V VMs in and outside a failover cluster

You can use Hyper-V Manager to live migrate VMs one by one, but to live-migrate multiple VMs simultaneously, you have to use PowerShell. In this article, we provide a few PowerShell examples to help ...
Network World

Double-Take adding Hyper-V support to replication/failover tools

Data replication and failover vendor Double-Take Software Tuesday unveiled a lineup of products to support the forthcoming Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environment. The company made the ...
Ars Technica

Failover Cluster Error

We have a problem with our Hyper-v Failover Cluster.Failover Cluster gives me MSDTC error. I am receiving the following these errors. Cluster resource 'DTC' in ...