“Share nothing” Live Migration with Hyper-V 2012
When you perform a live migration of a virtual machine between two computers that do not share an infrastructure, Hyper‑V first performs a partial migration...
Category: Windows Server 2012
Free, simple, standalone tool to migrate vms from a VMware environment to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012
With Windows Server 2012 RTM version available for all customers around the world, there is great news for organizations that are looking for a way...
Hyper-V Replica
Before Windows Server 2012 Beginning with Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering can be used together to make a virtual machine highly available...
What Is Hyper-V Replica?
Hyper-V Replica is new functionality added to the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 2012. Hyper-V Replica enables organizations to implement an affordable Business Continuity and...
How does a storage migration of a running virtual machine in Windows Server 2012 (both through Hyper-V manager and through PowerShell) actually work?
The process followed by Hyper-V internally to perform a storage migration is actually quite simple to explain and is as follows: Step 1: Start with...
What is the ‘Replication State’ and what are the values?
Replication state shows the current state of the replicating VM. It indicates whether the VM is being replicated, whether initial replication is pending etc. ReplicationState...
Why is the “Hyper-V Replica Broker” required?
Hyper-V Replica requires the Failover Clustering role Hyper-V Replica Broker to be configured if either the primary or replica Hyper-V server is part of a...
How to Create a Cluster in a Restrictive Active Directory Environment
In Windows Server 2012 there have been several enhancements to how Windows Server Failover Clusters integrate with the Active Directory. In this post we going to discuss some...