Day 16 of my 30 day quest to learn Windows Server 2012! It’s Bruce again. Tonight I am looking at Hyper-V Replica. This looks to be a great solution for small and medium business for disaster recovery. Basically in the box you have the ability to create a replica of you VM on a remote Hyper-V box and keep it in sync for disaster recovery and planed failed over scenarios. Below we have a good video on the topic and a Hands on lab to help you learn along with some other links. I am sure even large companies are going to use this feature in creative and innovate ways not yet imagined.
Hyper-V Replica Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134172.aspx
Hyper-V Replica Feature Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831716.aspx
Understand and Troubleshoot Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server "8" Beta
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29016
Enabling Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V Workloads Using Hyper-V Replica
http://northamerica.msteched.com/topic/details/2012/VIR302#fbid=Yesz_YUD4Lk
Configuring Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica
http://northamerica.msteched.com/topic/details/2012/VIR21-HOL#fbid=Yesz_YUD4Lk