Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Real World Solutions

Here are a number of possible solutions for real world problems that you might encounter.

Designing Hybrid DR

Challenge

A customer has traditionally purchased servers and storage from a manufacturer called ABC for their Hyper-V cluster. They have a limited budget to do the following:

• Replace Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.
• Implement a new DR site.

After the purchasing process has completed, they have decided to acquire new server and storage hardware from manufacturer XYZ. How will you do the following?

• Upgrade the customer to a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster.
• Deploy their DR site by using storage from ABC and XYZ.
• Do this with a minimum of downtime.

Solution

This will be a multi-phase ...