Hi
We are in the early planning and testing stages of migrating our virtual servers from vSphere 4.1 to Hyper-V 3.0
We have two sites, at the moment Site A has all of our vSphere hosts and virtual machines. Shortly we will have all new hardware (EqualLogic SAN, Hosts, Switches etc) installed at Site B. My problem is that I need to convert to HV quickly and with minimal downtime at geographically diverse locations.
Thankfully Site A & B are connected via a 100Mbps fibre link. Early conversion testing shows that converting machines over a link this slow would be very time consuming. Therefore I was considering converting a machine to HV at Site A and then replicating them to Site B.
I understand from reading technical documentation that in a Planned Failover scenario the virtual machine is shutdown and then replicated to the replica host. If I were to do this can the machine now failed over to Site B using a Planned Failover become the "Live" server or will it forever be a Replica?
Once everything is converted to Site B I will reconfigure the hardware at Site A as a Replica site. So once I have failed over a Replica can I then re-set up Replication to a new host on Site B?
Many thanks