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Hyper-V Replication across 100MB Metro-E
We have (2) Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V production hosts, one located in our corporate office and the other across the MAN at our colocation data center. Both are live with different services offered by each guest on each server (they are not redundant).
Just a quick question, would it not make sense (or is not designed for that - haven't found that answer yet) to replicate the guests to each others hosts across the metro-e? i.e.: Replicate the corporate host's guests to the colo Hyper-V host and the colocation host's guests to the corp Hyper-V host.
We have an existing Cluster with 3 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts in production as well, but resources are tapped and won't support any of these additional guests.
Thanks in advance!
Just a quick question, would it not make sense (or is not designed for that - haven't found that answer yet) to replicate the guests to each others hosts across the metro-e? i.e.: Replicate the corporate host's guests to the colo Hyper-V host and the colocation host's guests to the corp Hyper-V host.
We have an existing Cluster with 3 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts in production as well, but resources are tapped and won't support any of these additional guests.
Thanks in advance!
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Just to clarify - the I use a Cable internet link (60/30) and my clients are using either 10 Mb VPN (Open VPN) or 50/25 links. I have a script that monitors things daily and another that runs every 20 minutes to alert me if the replication is experiencing issues. Occasionally I have replication issues that clear themselves up in an hour or two... maybe 3-4 times per year I have to MANUALLY resume replication... but considering these are public internet connections over VPN, I'd say it's working quite well.
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Thank you for the bandwidth insight. Looks like I'm ok from what you described and I'll incorporate some monitoring. My initial concern was that, but more specifically, can I use 2 live hosts to replicate guests to the other and you've answered that as well. Appreciate it very much.
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