Software disk replication

The replication appliance is deployed when you set up agent-based migration of VMware VMs or physical servers. It's deployed as a single on-premises machine, either as a VMware VM or a physical server. It runs:. If you're deploying in Azure Government, use the installation file to deploy the replication appliance.

When you set up the replication appliance using the OVA template provided in the Azure Migrate hub, the appliance runs Windows Server and complies with the support requirements. If you set up the replication appliance manually on a physical server, then make sure that it complies with the requirements.

MySQL must be installed on the replication appliance machine. It can be installed using one of these methods. If you Migrate project has private endpoint connectivity, you will need access to following URLs over and above private link access:. The appliance is upgraded manually from the Azure Migrate hub. We recommend that you always run the latest version. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Set up one computer the way you want, clone the hard drive, and then install the clone on each subsequent computer. If you need to upgrade your computer hardware, simply popping in a cloned disk in the hardware may not work. When compared to backup software, the biggest benefit of cloning software for most home computer users is that you have a complete image of your computer at a single point in time.

The data files such as Microsoft Word documents, photos, and videos can be on a separate hard drive or volume. This way, all the computers are in sync; they have the same programs and users will have the same experience regardless of which machine they use. But, each computer can hold different data. So, there may be different Word and Excel documents on each computer, but the Word and Excel versions and the user interface — how these programs are accessed — are the same on each computer.

Most users require both backup and cloning solutions. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office efficiently and securely provides continuous data protection while maximizing your computer's performance during backups and minimizing storage space requirements.

With Acronis True Image, you have the benefit of disk backup and disk cloning tools, including flexible scheduling options, incremental imaging backup, the ability to choose what files and programs are backed up, and a host of choices as to where to store your cloned-disk image. All that and simple to use too. Even computer novices can use the easy-to-follow wizards guide through the set-up process.

Once initial set-up is complete, the drive-cloning software runs automatically, eliminating any further time or effort. Disk-cloning software is the perfect way to protect and manage your precious data.

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Take advantage of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and rest easy knowing your computer s and data are fully protected. There should be no warnings of errors in this sequence. There will be many events; these indicate progress.

Now you will manage and operate your server-to-server replicated infrastructure. You can perform all of the steps below on the nodes directly or from a remote management computer that contains the Windows Server Remote Server Administration Tools.

To measure replication performance, use the Get-Counter cmdlet on both the source and destination nodes. The counter names are:. Windows Server prevents role switching when the initial sync is ongoing, as it can lead to data loss if you attempt to switch before allowing initial replication to complete.

Don't force switch directions until the initial sync is complete. Check the event logs to see the direction of replication change and recovery mode occur, and then reconcile. Write IOs can then write to the storage owned by the new source server.

Changing the replication direction will block write IOs on the previous source computer. Ensure you run the Remove-SRPartnership cmdlet on the current source of replication only, not on the destination server. Run Remove-Group on both servers.

For example, to remove all replication from two servers:. Many Microsoft customers deploy DFS Replication as a disaster recovery solution for unstructured user data like home folders and departmental shares.

DFS Replication has shipped in Windows Server R2 and all later operating systems and operates on low bandwidth networks, which makes it attractive for high latency and low change environments with many nodes. However, DFS Replication has notable limitations as a data replication solution:. Storage Replica has none of these limitations. It does, however, have several that might make it less interesting in some environments:.

If these are not blocking factors, Storage Replica allows you to replace DFS Replication servers with this newer technology. The process is, at a high level:. Install Windows Server on two servers and configure your storage. This could mean upgrading an existing set of servers or cleanly installing. Ensure that any data you want to replicate exists on one or more data volumes and not on the C: drive. You can also seed the data on the other server to save time, using a backup or file copies, as well as use thin provisioned storage.

Making the metadata-like security match perfectly is unnecessary, unlike DFS Replication. Share the data on your source server and make it accessible through a DFS namespace. This is important, to ensure that users can still access it if the server name changes to one in a disaster site. You can create matching shares on the destination server, which will be unavailable during normal operations, b. Don't add the destination server to the DFS Namespaces namespace, or if you do, ensure that all its folder targets are disabled.

Enable Storage Replica replication and complete initial sync. Replication can be either synchronous or asynchronous. However, synchronous is recommended in order to guarantee IO data consistency on the destination server. This will guarantee applications flush their data files to disk consistently. In the event of a disaster, you can recover files from snapshots on the destination server that might have been partially replicated asynchronously.

Snapshots replicate along with files. Switch the destination server to be the new source, which surfaces its replicated volumes to users. If using synchronous replication, no data restore will be necessary unless the user was using an application that was writing data without transaction protection this is irrespective of replication during loss of the source server. If using asynchronous replication, the need for a VSS snapshot mount is higher but consider using VSS in all circumstances for application consistent snapshots.

Disaster Recovery planning is a complex subject and requires great attention to detail. Creation of runbooks and the performance of annual live failover drills is highly recommended. When an actual disaster strikes, chaos will rule and experienced personnel may be unavailable. Create an ExpressRoute in the Azure portal. After the ExpressRoute is approved, a resource group is added to the subscription - navigate to Resource groups to view this new group.

Take note of the virtual network name.