Replicate Hyper-V cluster VMs to Windows Azure

Hello,
I'm wondering if there is a possibility that we can create a replication from our hyper-v cluster to windows azure. So we have a hyper-v cluster. We are now replicating to an other site. Can we replace this site with windows azure? So that we can run our
VMs in azure when our site fails.
hope someone can tell me more.

I hate to break i down to you, but you
can't replicate a virtual machine from Hyper-V to Windows Azure IaaS cloud.
The answer is simple - you don't have access to any hypervisor in Azure, but virtual machines (the layer above).
The blog post you are referring to is how to setup SCVMM together with Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager
- which is a service in Azure that function as a control panel/orchestration of Hyper-V Replica in your environments.
-kn
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TCP
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0.0.0.0:0
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TCP
10.xxx.252.xxx:6600
0.0.0.0:0
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