Step-by-Step - Disaster Recovery From Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Azure - PART2

Hello guys, in the last PART of this article I prepared all the Hyper -V infrastructure and Azure for Disaster Recovery. In this part we will see how we test it in different ways

1. Testing Failover On-Premises to Azure;
2. Failover Planned On-Premises to Azure;
3. Failover Planned Azure to On-Premises;
4. Failover UnPlanned On-Premises to Azure;
5. Failover UnPlanned Azure to On-Premises.

Step-by-Step - Disaster Recovery From Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Azure - PART1

In the following two articles I will show you how to make a copy of virtual machines from Hyper-V to Azure and thus set up a Disaster Recovery with VM replication. How cool is that? :)

 

Requirements:

• Only for VMs in Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher;
• For this scenario it will be necessary a Virtual Machine with Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 installed (VMM) and Hyper-V 2012 R2;
• Node(s) in the Hyper-V and VMM must have access to the Internet (ports 80 and 443), so we can replicate information;
• You can create a Site-to-Site VPN for Azure DR so that there is communication between On-Premises and DR VMs (Optional);
• Like previuos point, you can create a Point-to-site network so that users can access Azure DR VMs (Optional);
• Geo-Redundant storage for VMs replicas.

SCCM 2012 Troubleshooting Tools

I have installed and configured, for many years, one of the most useful tools of Microsoft, SCCM 2012 (Microsoft System Center Configurations Manager 2012) and the Troubleshooting is not so easy. So in this post I'll reference some of the best apps to do it. You can download the Trial Version of SCCM from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager-and-endpoint-protection

The Management Console has many options to control all the Servers, Clients and Mobile Phones, but there are some other tools that can help the Administrators to achive that objective, and most important is that they are free! I will name some of them.