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Hyper-V to Hyper-V requirements
Use these requirements if your source is a virtual server on a Hyper-V server, you want
to protect the host-level virtual disk files, and your target is a virtual server on a Hyper-V
server.
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Source and target host operating system—Your source and target host servers
can be any Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 operating system from the
supported server
operating systems that has the Hyper-V role enabled. In addition, you can use
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 or Server Core 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled.
(Hyper-V Server 2008 and Server Core 2008 are not supported.) In each case, the
source and target must be running identical operating system versions. For
example, your source cannot be Windows 2008 and your target Windows 2008
R2.
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Source and target host configurations—You can use one-to-one, many-to-one,
or one-to-many
configurations , however, you cannot use a chained configuration in
a Hyper-V to Hyper-V to Hyper-V scenario.
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Clusters-Clustered Hyper-V servers are supported on the source only.
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Guest operating systems—The guest operating system can be any operating
system. However, if you want Storage Mirroring Recover to monitor the virtual
machine for failover, then you must have Integration Components installed on the
guest operating system and the virtual machine must be powered on.
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Virtual machine configurations—The following limitations apply to the virtual
machines on the source and target Hyper-V servers.
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The virtual machines must be in their own home folder that is not shared by
any other virtual machines.
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The virtual machines cannot be created in or replicated to the Hyper-V
system default folder.
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The virtual machines' snapshot folder must be unique to each virtual
machine, they cannot be in the Hyper-V system default folder, and they
cannot be changed once protection has been established.
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The virtual machines cannot use raw, pass-through, or differencing disks.
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WAN support—If your source and target are across a WAN and you want Storage
Mirroring Recover to automatically update networking on the guest operating
system during failover, the following limitations apply. If you choose not to have
Storage Mirroring Recover automatically update networking on the guest operating
system during failover, you will have to update the network manually, but the
following limitations will not apply.
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Guest operating system—The guest operating system must be Windows
2003 or Windows 2008.