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V to Hyper-V requirements

In addition to the Core Double-Take requirements, use these requirements for V to Hyper-V protection.

Source server—The source server can be any virtual server running any of the operating systems listed in the Core Double-Take requirements. However, if you are using a Windows 2003 operating system, you must have Service Pack 2 which is required for Hyper-V Integration Services. Additionally, if your source is a virtual server and you want Double-Take to monitor it for failover, then you must have Integration Components installed on the guest operating system and the virtual machine must be powered on.
Target server—The target server can be any Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 operating system from the Core Double-Take requirements 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.
Disk types—Virtual machines can use raw, pass-through, or differencing disks, however, they will be virtual hard disks on the replica on the target.
Microsoft .NET Framework—Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 Service Pack 1 is required. This version is not included in the .NET version 4.0 release. Therefore, even if you have .NET version 4.0 installed, you will also need version 3.5.1. For Windows 2008 and earlier, you can install this version from the Double-Take CD, via a web connection during the Double-Take installation, or from a copy you have obtained manually from the Microsoft web site. For Windows 2008 R2 and later, you need to enable it through Windows features.
Snapshots—Double-Take snapshots are not supported with V to Hyper-V jobs.

Supported configurations—The following table identifies the supported configurations for a V to Hyper-V job.

Configuration		Supported	Not Supported
Source to target configuration¹	One to one, active/standby	X
	One to one, active/active		X
	Many to one	X
	One to many	X
	Chained		X
	Single server	X
Server configuration	Standalone to standalone	X
	Standalone to cluster	X
	Cluster to standalone	X
	Cluster to cluster	X
	Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) guest level	X
	Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) host level		X

See Supported configurations for details on each of the source to target configurations.