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DR is a key component of the Business Continuity Plan.

When considering DR options, virtualization is a game changer. Virtualization makes DR affordable to companies that could not afford it before. But in order to understand how DR can be optimized in a virtualized environment, it is important to understand the technical aspects, like replication functionality.

Remember : even though high availability can be achieved with clustering, this will not safeguard your businessfrom the entire data center or hosting facility going down (in case of a fire or a flood, for example). In this case you need a DR solution geographically dispersed.

Last week I started writing about Hyper-V DR solution in Windows 2012:

https://virtualisationandmanagement.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/windows-2012-hyper-v-replica-deployment-scenarios-functionality-and-step-by-step-by-using-ssl-certificate-part-i/

Keep watching this blog for the part 2…

Also, there is a good DR solution document for Windows 2008R2 here :

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/6/1/36117F2E-499F-42D7-9ADD-A838E9E0C197/SiteRecoveryWhitepaper_final_120309.pdf

and here : Hyper-V in the Real World –Multi-Site DR with the System Center Suite of Products http://www.techdays.ca/contentlibrary/video/en/2011-hyper-v-in-the-real-world-–multi-site-dr-with-the-system-center-suite-of-products.aspx