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.

Exchange Server 2007 Lost - How to Recover Installation and Definitions on a New Server

To end the year smoothly (or not!), I recently had a costumer that lost the Physical Exchange server because a corruption of the disks after a power failure.
The worst fear of any Microsoft Exchange Server administrator is a complete crash of the Exchange server.
First thing to ask.. Backups! Ok, we have backups from the Exchange databases, but not from the Operational System and Exchange Installation.
In this post I'll show how to recover step by step a exchange server (in this case Exchange 2007 with Windows Server 2008. It applies to Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2003 too) with the following roles: Mailbox, Client Access, Hub Transport, and Management Tools from scratch.