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Support for Hyper-V Replica in CM 2012 SP1 & Disaster Recovery supported scenarios

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Currently, Hyper-V Replica is not supported by ConfigMgr 2012!
This is very likely to change in a future version of the product , but there are currently no specific plans or timeframe for any such change...

Despite that, i think it will be to know which are the supported methods and MS best practices that you need to review, regarding a Disaster Recovery scenario.

Planning for High Availability with Configuration Manager
From <https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh846246.aspx>

Built-in site recovery options can reduce server downtime and include advanced options that simplify recovery when you have a hierarchy with a central administration site.

High Availability for Configuration Manager Sites

At each site, you deploy site system roles to provide the services that you want clients to use at that site. The site database contains the configuration information for the site and for all clients. Use one or more of the available options to provide for high availability of the site database, and the recovery of the site and site database if needed.

The following table provides information about the available options for Configuration Manager sites that support high availability.

Option

More information

Use a SQL Server cluster to host the site database

When you use a SQL Server cluster for the database at a central administration site or primary site, you use the fail-over support built into SQL Server.

Secondary sites cannot use a SQL Server cluster, and do not support backup or restoration of their site database. You recover a secondary site by reinstalling the secondary site from its parent primary site.

Deploy a hierarchy of sites with a central administration site, and one or more child primary sites

This configuration can provide fault tolerance when your sites manage overlapping segments of your network. In addition, this configuration offers an additional recovery option to use the information in the shared database available at another site, to rebuild the site database at the recovered site. You can use this option to replace a failed or unavailable backup of the failed sites database.

Create regular backups at central administration sites and primary sites

When you create and test a regular site backup, you can ensure that you have the data necessary to recover a site, and the experience to recover a site in the minimal amount of time.

Install multiple instances of site system roles

When you install multiple instances of critical site system roles such as the management point and distribution point, you provide redundant points of contact for clients in the event that a specific site system server is off-line.

Install multiple instances of the SMS Provider at a site

The SMS Provider provides the point of administrative contact for one or more Configuration Manager consoles. When you install multiple SMS Providers, you can provide redundancy for contact points to administer your site and hierarchy.

Recover a Configuration Manager Site
From <https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712697.aspx>

A Configuration Manager site recovery is required whenever a Configuration Manager site fails or data loss occurs in the site database. Repairing and resynchronizing data are the core tasks of a site recovery and are required to prevent interruption of operations. Site recovery is started by running the Configuration Manager Setup Wizard from installation media or by configuring the unattended installation script and then using the Setup command /script option. Your recovery options vary depending on whether you have a backup of the Configuration Manager site database.

Determine Your Recovery Options

There are two main areas that you have to consider for Configuration Manager primary site server and central administration site recovery; the site server and the site database. Use the following sections to help you determine the options that you have to select for your recovery scenario.

Site Server Recovery Options

You must start Setup from the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager installation media, or a network shared folder that contains the source files, for the Recover a site option to be available. When you run Setup, you have the following recovery options for the failed site server:

  • Recover the site server using an existing backup: Use this option when you have a backup of the Configuration Manager site server that was created on the site server as part of the Backup Site Server maintenance task before the site failure. The site is reinstalled, and the site settings are configured, based on the site that was backed up.
  • Reinstall the site server: Use this option when you do not have a backup of the site server. The site server is reinstalled, and you must specify the site settings, just as you would during an initial installation. You must use the same site code and site database name that you used when the failed site was first installed to successfully recover the site.

 Note

When Setup detects an existing Configuration Manager site on the server, you can start a site recovery, but the recovery options for the site server are limited. For example, if you run Setup on an existing site server, when you choose recovery, you can recover the site database server, but the option to recover the site server is disabled.

Site Database Recovery Options

When you run Setup, you have the following recovery options for the site database:

  • Recover the site database using a backup set: Use this option when you have a backup of the Configuration Manager site database that was created as part of the Backup Site Server maintenance task run on the site before the site database failure. When you have a hierarchy, the changes that were made to the site database after the last site database backup are retrieved from the central administration site for a primary site, or from a reference primary site for a central administration site. When you recover the site database for a stand-alone primary site, you lose site changes after the last backup.

    When you recover the site database for a site in a hierarchy, the recovery behavior is different for a central administration site and primary site, and when the last backup is inside or outside of the SQL Server change tracking retention period. For more information, see the Site Database Recovery Scenarios section in this topic.

Note

The recovery fails if you select to restore the site database by using a backup set, but the site database already exists.
  • Create a new database for this site: Use this option when you do not have a backup of the Configuration Manager site database. When you have a hierarchy, a new site database is created, and the data is recovered by using replicated data from the central administration site for a primary site, or a reference primary site for a central administration site. This option is not available when you are recovering a stand-alone primary site or a central administration site that does not have primary sites.
  • Use a site database that has been manually recovered: Use this option when you have already recovered the Configuration Manager site database but have to complete the recovery process. Configuration Manager can recover the site database from the Configuration Manager backup maintenance task or from a site database backup that you perform by using DPM or another process. After you restore the site database by using a method outside Configuration Manager, you must run Setup and select this option to complete the site database recovery. When you have a hierarchy, the changes that were made to the site database after the last site database backup are retrieved from the central administration site for a primary site, or from a reference primary site for a central administration site. When you recover the site database for a stand-alone primary site, you lose site changes after the last backup.

Note

When you use DPM to back up your site database, use the DPM procedures to restore the site database to a specified location before you continue the restore process in Configuration Manager. For more information about DPM, see the Data Protection Manager Documentation Library on TechNet.
  • Skip database recovery: Use this option when no data loss has occurred on the Configuration Manager site database server. This option is only valid when the site database is on a different computer than the site server that you are recovering.