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How to replicate virtual machines

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How to replicate virtual machines

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- [Instructor] In our quest for high availability with Windows Server 2016, we're going to discuss both live replications and how to replicate virtual machines between two Hyper-V servers. Now, this is separate from Failover Cluster Manager because not everyone is going to have a failover cluster, but they still want to have some sort of high availability. Now with failover cluster, we can have live migrations happen automatically. But without Failover Cluster Manager, there is still some high availability we can put into the Hyper-V of Windows Server 2016. So, let's pick our DC2 for an example, and what we're going to do is go over to our Hyper-V settings. We're going to go where it says Live Migrations. Let's go ahead and enable Live Migrations, and this enables us to move the virtual machine from one server to another in case we're going to be bringing that server down. Now, we can support multiple live migrations at the same time. The default is two, but you can change that to any…

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