VMware uses Storage Replication Adapters, or plugins that specifically can handle using storage-based replication to secure the virtual machines, and handle the failover.
When looking at Hyper-V, the only materials that I could find were these:
Which basically makes it sound like Hyper-V Replica handles the replication on a per-guest/VHD basis. Alternatively you might want to look at Veeam or Zerto for VM-level recovery, but still it's not storage-level replication.
You could also look at EMC Storage Integrator (ESI):
I'm not saying that using storage-level replication won't work. Maybe it will, but I can't find anything that specifically says it will, or that seems to make it easy like it is with VMware.
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VMware uses Storage Replication Adapters, or plugins that specifically can handle using storage-based replication to secure the virtual machines, and handle the failover.
When looking at Hyper-V, the only materials that I could find were these:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/hyper-v-vmm-disaster-recovery
Look at page 38 of this guide:
https://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/h12557-storage-ms-hyper-v-virtualization-wp.pdf
Which basically makes it sound like Hyper-V Replica handles the replication on a per-guest/VHD basis. Alternatively you might want to look at Veeam or Zerto for VM-level recovery, but still it's not storage-level replication.
You could also look at EMC Storage Integrator (ESI):
https://www.emc.com/data-center-management/storage-integrator-for-windows-suite.htm#!interoperability
I'm not saying that using storage-level replication won't work. Maybe it will, but I can't find anything that specifically says it will, or that seems to make it easy like it is with VMware.
~Chris