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Systemspoet
Asked: 2015-02-25 07:53:22 +0800 CST

Is it possible to run production machines on a replication target?

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I'm considering a Hyper-V replication scenario in which:

SiteA is a Failover Cluster of 2012R2 machines containing a number Linux guests serving as production databases and application servers.

SiteB is principally a replication target for disaster recovery purposes. In addition, it's been suggested that we may need to run one very small utilization Linux guest in the SiteB building. Is it possible to run a live machine on a replication target, assuming that the replication target is suitably sized? Are there any specific drawbacks to doing so, assuming it's even possible?

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    Is it possible to run a live machine on a replication target?

    Yes it is. As for drawbacks, make sure the target host is appropriately sized to run production workloads and the replicated workloads in the event of a failover.

    The replicated virtual machines don't run on the target until a failover is initiated (by you) so there should be little to no resource utilization on the target host, other than the bandwidth used by the replication traffic, but you should make sure that in the event of a failover the target host has enough resources to run all of the workloads.

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