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  • Planning for disaster recovery with Microsoft Hyper-V

    Anyone who has participated in a disaster recovery exercise is familiar with the pains of rebuilding an infrastructure from scratch. The little nuances of reinstalling and restoring application servers, bringing supporting services live and the possibility of bad or missing data can all cause an exercise to fail.

    Virtualization removes the guesswork from standing up new production systems since you can use the systems you already have – the ones running in production and in good working order....

  • Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V (Part 6)

    Brien M. Posey: If you have read some of my previous articles in this series, then you may already have a pretty good idea of what some of the advantages and disadvantages are of performing guest machine backups, but I want to discuss them anyway, just to make sure that we are all on the same page.

    By far the biggest advantage to guest machine level backups is the granularity that it provides you with. Unlike a host level backup, you are free to pick and choose exactly which files, folders, applications, etc. you would like to backup. Likewise, a guest level backup also provides you with the ability to restore individual files and folders as opposed to forcing you to restore the server as a whole....

  • Citrix, Microsoft Partner to Offer Disaster Recovery for Virtual Environments

    In its Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix is integrating its StorageLink Site Recovery feature, which gives user greater disaster recovery capabilities for their Hyper-V-based virtual data centers. Users can test out disaster recovery scenarios, and manage their DR services through a single console....

  • Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V (Part 2)

    Brien M. Posey: In my first article in this series, I explained when it is and is not appropriate to use virtual machine snapshots and about how snapshots work. In this article, I want to show you how to actually use snapshots....

  • Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V (Part 1)

    Brien M. Posey: Although backing up and recovering a server is often simple and straightforward, virtualization can bring an extra layer of complexity into the picture. In this article series, I will discuss your options for disaster recovery within a Hyper-V environment.

    Although there are many benefits to server virtualization, there is no denying that virtualization also adds an extra layer of complexity to server management. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than when it comes to backup and restore initiatives. What is even more frustrating is that there is a lot of misinformation on the Internet regarding backups and disaster recovery for virtual servers. In this article series, I am going to try to set the record straight by explaining the various disaster recovery options that are available to you in a Hyper-V environment....

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