Hyper-V Replica saves businesses from Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy has devastated the east coast of the US. It has flooded the subway, road tunnels and several homes and businesses.

The BBC has even estimated that 50 million people could be affected by the storm.

But out of the destruction there was a number of businesses which had fortunately set-up their Hyper-V replica's as a DR solution. Many have already posted many stories on how Hyper-V  had saved their business. All their important documents were stored safely and  it allowed them to carry on work the next day.

Good morning;

The Hurricane hit our area badly; many downed trees, even on my wife’s car. Flooding and total power cuts were everywhere.

We are very grateful that everyone is well.

I now want to thank the Microsoft 2012 server team for giving small to medium sized businesses the new replica feature.

Two of our clients (both whom cannot be without their IT infrastructure) were flooded entirely, and might take 2 weeks to get back into their businesses.

At 7pm last night we failed over their entire domains to the Replica site, and they have been able to continue their daily business with ZERO interruption.

“Windows Server 2012 saved their business”.

Kindest Regards.

Steve

Hyper-V replica is part of the Windows Server 2012 package and provides an economical way of replicating critical infrastructure to a safe remote DR site.

This allows businesses to be up and running without any data loss. Unfortunately there were also several businesses with data centers which will need a few weeks before they can be up and running again.

Hyper-V Replica allows the administrator to select individual virtual machines that will be replicated to a remote server or site, so it does not require an expensive storage infrastructure. 

One of the great things about Hyper-V Replicas is that you can replicate all of your virtual machines to remote sites and send virtual machines from the same Hyper-V host to different servers or sites. 

If you want to know how to use Hyper-V Replicas in Windows Server 2012, Windows Server instructor Ed Baker explains it all in this powerful blog: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/how-to-blog/how-to-use-hyper-v-replicas-in-windows-server-2012/

How has Hyper-V helped you?