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Question about "multi site replica for hyper-v" from a potential client

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Hi experts,

Sorry for my english, i´ll try to do my best...

The situation is that I had a meeting with a potential client, who has 2 datacenters with identical hardware:

- 5 blade servers, 750GB RAM each

- 140 TB available space on storage

- Hyper-V virtualized

He asked me about an Acronis feature that can maintain an identical replica of the VM while powered on, so if a site goes down, he has an exact replica of all VMs in the other site. He called that feature "multi-site replica for hyper-v", and also said that he saw that feature on Acronis website.

Although I´m an Acronis user, sounded strange to me, so I searched in Acronis website and found nothing about it.

Please can you tell me if there is any feature that support this client´s need?

Thank you in advance!!

 

 

 

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Hi Sebastian,

What we currently have is ability to convert a machine into VM on Hyper-V (or ESXi) host right after the backup is created. This feature is available in Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 (with Hyper-V support). How it works:

- You create a backup plan for some machine (via an Agent installed inside it) and save the backup to some location

- In the backup plan you enable the "Convert to VM" option (see http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_11.5/index.html#21851.html ) and select the Hyper-V host as the target destination for conversion

As the result the machine will be backed up to some location (e.g. network share) and right after the backup is created it will be restored as VM on the Hyper-V host which effectively means that your source machine will have a replica of it running on remote Hyper-V host (Source Machine->Backup->Hyper-V machine). The next backups performed on schedule will be incremental and so will be the conversion: only changes since the previous backup will be transferred into backup and into the coverted VM.

Note that the source machine in this scenario can be both physical or virtual machine (including a Hyper-V machine backed up in agent-less mode). This would be asynchronous replication where you will always have a stand-by replica VM which state matches the state of the original machine at the last time of backup.

In the next versions we're planning to add direct VM replication for Hyper-V (so that there is no need to create backup in the middle), however backup+convert should still be the primary method as it's always safer to keep at least 2 copies of your data (one in backup and one in converted VM).

Hope this information helps.

Thank you.

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Best regards,

Vasily

Acronis Virtualization Program Manager