Configuring VM replication
Hyper-V VM replication is a disaster recovery feature that creates a replica of a VM on a remote Hyper-V server and keeps the replica up to date. The VM replica on the remote host is not active, but can be made active should the VM's host fail for some reason.
With Hyper-V replication, the source VM host bundles up any changes in a running VM's VHD file(s) and sends them to the replica server on a regular basis. The replica server then applies those changes to the dormant replica.
Once you have a replica established, you can test the replica to ensure it can start should you need it. Also, you can failover to the replica—bringing the replicated VM up based on the most recently replicated data. If the source VM host becomes ...
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