Hyper-V 2012 VM replication as SCOM/SQL DR solution

Hi all,
Anyone out there using Hyper-V VM replicas of SCOM and SQL servers as a DR solution for SCOM?
Is it supported?
We are running Hyper-V 2012 R2, SCOM 2012 SP1, and SQL 2012. We created Hyper-V replicas of SCOM and SQL server on a different Hyper-V host. Turned off the primary SQL and SCOM VMs to simulate a disaster and performed a fail-over in Hyper-V. After a few
manual steps the SCOM server seemed to work fine.
I could go into more details, but overall is it a supported solution? Looks too simple and good to be true :-).
Our RPO, RTOs are quite flexible for SCOM.
Thanks.

Hi,
Although there is no official document, but from my point of view, hyper-v replica is one way to keep data in two places, this way to have a data backup.
And the most official way is to do database back up, and here is the article about how to do DR for SCOM:
Disaster Recovery in System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh531578.aspx
As far as I know, hyper-v replica is used to prevent hardware damage causing loosing data.
Regards,
Yan Li
Regards, Yan Li

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Hyper-V 2012 removing replication on virtual machine

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If you remove replication from a virtual machine how long does this take to update the replication partner? Is there a best practice for removing?
I have a three node and two node cluster running on Windows 2012. I removed replication from a VM and the partner still shows replication enabled.
Thanks in advance.
Craig
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Hi Craig,
Based on my understanding , if we need to remove the replica we may need to remove replica on primary and replica hyper-v host / site .
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Can I assign several physical storage locations for each virtual machine when using the replication-feature from Hyper-V 2012 R2?

Hi everyone,
I have 2x physical servers running Hyper-V 2012 R2. Each hosts several virtual machines. The VHDs of the VMs are stored on several dedicated physical disks to have a performance boost. For exampe if VM A has two VHDs attached I made sure that the VHDs are
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Secondly, you could replicate different VMs to different storage locations to perform some of the disk balancing you are trying to perform. Lastly, you could copy the vhd file to a different location
before starting the VM.
.:|:.:|:. tim
Hi Tim,
thanks for the reply. Sorry, but I had some other tasks to take care of, so I wasn't paying enough attention to this thread.
The part I quoted from your reply sounds exactly like the action I'd like to perform, but as you pointed out before this should not be possible.
How can I perform the action (replicating each VM to a storage location) as you mentioned secondly? To sum it up again:
2x physical machines carrying severel HDDs
8+ VMs spread to run on the 2x servers
when setting up replication I can only set the storage-location from server A on B and vice versa B on A
Thanks again for your reply.
Cheers,
Sebastian

Is it possible to deploy 2 SCOM 2012 R2 reporting in a SQL server which already has SCOM reporting of a different management group but with 2 different reporting instance.

Hi Experts,
I have a typical situation in the LAB environment. Hope some one helps. I have Installed a SCOM 2012 R2 with SQL 2012 SP1 in a single server (Management group 1). I have installed another management group on another server using this SQL server for its database
so i have everything going fine.
The first management group has its reporting installed in the SQL server. For the second i created a new named instance for that. But i cannot run the SCOM setup in the SQL server (Also holding the Management group 1 MS) as 1 st reporting is already there.
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Hi Yan Li,
Thank you for the reply. So as you are aware If i need to instal reporting, i need to run the SCOM 2012 R2 setup in the SQL server and select reporting and select the
instance and then mention the management server there right. I am not getting that option there it is asking me to remove or repair the existing installation as there is already a SCOM entire setup including reporting there. As it is a lab there is no problem
in testing. I have 2 reporting instances. Any suggestions for me on how to overcome this issue and deploy the second reporting in the new named instance ?
Below is the screenshot of the error what i am talking about when i run SCOM 2012 R2 setup to install reporting in the SQL server
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When i click on remove or repair it
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Can we recover SCCM 2012 R2 site Servers and SQL DB from hyper V or Vmware VM snapshot

Hi Folks
Can we recover SCCM 2012 R2 site Servers and SQL DB from hyper V or Vmware VM snapshot
if yes is there any challenges or any document available from Microsoft on Hyper V SCCM VM snapshot recovery.

I've made it work and it "should" work. However it's not the best practice method of site recovery. You should recover using a SQL restore.
See good example
http://anoopcnair.com/2012/07/01/sccm-configmgr-2012-primary-site-server-and-database-recovery-part-1/
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Hyper-V 2012 High Availability using Windows Server 2012 File Server Storage

Hi Guys,
Need your expertise regarding hyper-v high availability. We setup 2 hyper-v 2012 host in our infra for our domain consolidation project. Unfortunately, we don't have hardware storage that is said to be a requirement that we can use to create a failover cluster
for hyper-v host to implement HA. Here's the setup:
Host1
HP Proliant L380 G7
Windows Server 2012 Std
Hyper-V role, Failover Cluster Manager and File and Storage Services installed
Host2
Dell PowerEdge 2950
Windows Server 2012 Std
Hyper-V role, Failover Cluster Manager and File and Storage Services installed
Storage
Dell PowerEdge 6800
Windows Server 2012 Std
File and Storage Services installed
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the event of system failure. If my host1 dies, the VMs should go/move to host2 and vice versa. In setting this up, i believe i need to enable the failover clustering between my hyper-v hosts which i already did but upon validation, it says "No disks
were found on which to perform cluster validation tests." Is it possible to cluster it using just a regular windows file server? I've read about SMB 3.0 and i've configured it as well i'm able to save VMs on my file server, but i don't think that my hyper-v
hosts are already highly available.
Any feedback and suggestions or recommendation is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hi Guys,
Need your expertise regarding hyper-v high availability. We setup 2 hyper-v 2012 host in our infra for our domain consolidation project. Unfortunately, we don't have hardware storage that is said to be a requirement that we can use to create a failover cluster
for hyper-v host to implement HA. Here's the setup:
Host1
HP Proliant L380 G7
Windows Server 2012 Std
Hyper-V role, Failover Cluster Manager and File and Storage Services installed
Host2
Dell PowerEdge 2950
Windows Server 2012 Std
Hyper-V role, Failover Cluster Manager and File and Storage Services installed
Storage
Dell PowerEdge 6800
Windows Server 2012 Std
File and Storage Services installed
I'm able to configure the new feature about Shared Nothing Live Migration - i'm able to move VM's back and fort between my hosts without storage. But this is planned and proactive approach. My concern is to have my hyper-v host to become highly available in
the event of system failure. If my host1 dies, the VMs should go/move to host2 and vice versa. In setting this up, i believe i need to enable the failover clustering between my hyper-v hosts which i already did but upon validation, it says "No disks were
found on which to perform cluster validation tests." Is it possible to cluster it using just a regular windows file server? I've read about SMB 3.0 and i've configured it as well i'm able to save VMs on my file server, but i don't think that my hyper-v hosts
are already highly available.
Any feedback and suggestions or recommendation is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Your shared storage is a single point of failure with this scenario so I would not consider the whole setup as a production configuration... Also setup is both slow (all I/O is travelling down the wire to storage server, running VMs from DAS is ages faster)
and expensive (third server + extra Windows license). I would think twice about what you do and either deploy a built-in VM replication technologies (Hyper-V Replica) and apps built-in clustering features that does not require shared storage (SQL Server and
Database Mirroring for example, BTW what workload do you run?) or use some third-party software creating fault tolerant shared storage from DAS or investing into physical shared storage hardware (HA one of course).
Hi VR38DETT,
Thanks for responding. The hosts will cater a domain controller (on each host), Web filtering software (Websense), Anti-Virus (McAfee ePO), WSUS and an Auditserver as of the moment. Is the Hyper-V Replica somewhat give "high availability" to VMs or Hyper-V
hosts? Also, is the cluster required in order to implement it? Haven't tried that but worth a try.

3 Node hyper-V 2012 R2 Failover Clustering with Storage spaces on one of the Hyper-V hosts

Hi,
We have 3x Dell R720s with 5x 600GB 3.5 15K SAS and 128 GB RAM each. Was wondering if I could setup a Fail-over Hyper-V 2012 R2 Clustering with these 3 with the shared storage for the CSV being provided by one of the Hyper-V hosts with storage spaces installed
(Is storage spaces supported on Hyper-V?) Or I can use a 2-Node Failover clustering and the third one as a standalone Hyper-V or Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and storage spaces.
Each Server comes with QP 1G and a DP10G nics so that I can dedicate the 10G nics for iSCSI
Dont have a SAN or a 10G switch so it would be a crossover cable connection between the servers.
Most of the VMs would be Non-HA. Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 would be the only VMS running as HA-VMs. CSV for the Hyper-V Failover cluster would be provided by the storage spaces.

I thought I was tying to do just that with 8x600 GB RAID-10 using the H/W RAID controller (on the 3rd Server) and creating CSVs out of that space so as to provide better storage performance for the HA-VMs.
1. Storage Server : 8x 600GB RAID-10 (For CSVs to house all HA-VMs running on the other 2 Servers) It may also run some local VMs that have very little disk I/O
2. Hyper-V-1 : Will act has primary HYPER-V hopst for 2x Exchange and Database Server HA-VMs (the VMDXs would be stored on the Storage Servers CSVs on top of the 8x600GB RAID-10). May also run some non-HA VMs using the local 2x600 GB in RAID-1
3. Hyper-V-2 : Will act as a Hyper-V host when the above HA-VMs fail-over to this one (when HYPER-V-1 is down for any reason). May also run some non-HA VMs using the local 2x600 GB in RAID-1
The single point of failure for the HA-VMs (non HA-VMs are non-HA so its OK if they are down for some time) is the Storage Server. The Exchange servers here are DAG peers to the Exchange Servers at the head office so in case the storage server mainboard
goes down (disk failure is mitigated using RAID, other components such as RAM, mainboard may still go but their % failure is relatively low) the local exchange servers would be down but exchange clients will still be able to do their email related tasks using
the HO Exchange servers.
Also they are under 4hr mission critical support including entire server replacement within the 4 hour period.
If you're OK with your shared storage being a single point of failure then sure you can proceed the way you've listed. However you'll still route all VM-related I/O over Ethernet which is obviously slower then running VMs from DAS (with or without virtual SAN
LUN-to-LUN replication layer) as DAS has higher bandwidth and smaller latency. Also with your scenario you exclude one host from your hypervisor cluster so running VMs on a pair of hosts instead of three would give you much worse performance and resilience:
with 1 from 3 physical hosts lost cluster would be still operable and with 1 from 2 lost all VMs booted on a single node could give you inadequate performance. So make sure your hosts would be insanely underprovisioned as every single node should be able to
handle ALL workload in case of disaster. Good luck and happy clustering :)
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Moving VMs From One Hyper-v 2012 R2 to Another Hyper-v 2012 R2

Hi everyone, was hoping for some help in something I am confused about
Currently I have SERVER1 running hyper-v 2012 R2
I want to move all my VMs (around 20) to SERVER2 also running Hyper-v 2012 R2
But I am confused on the best way to do this
1) should I just click on "MOVE" on SERVER1 to move to SERVER2?
2) Should I do an export and then import
3) should I setup replication from Server1 to Server2 and then do a failover?
4) or should I shut the VM down, copy the VHDX file and then create a new VM and use that VHDX
I just want to be cautious and use the best method to ensure it goes smooth and not worry about any corruption. Can anyone offer some advice?
thanks

Hi everyone, was hoping for some help in something I am confused about
Currently I have SERVER1 running hyper-v 2012 R2
I want to move all my VMs (around 20) to SERVER2 also running Hyper-v 2012 R2
But I am confused on the best way to do this
1) should I just click on "MOVE" on SERVER1 to move to SERVER2?
2) Should I do an export and then import
3) should I setup replication from Server1 to Server2 and then do a failover?
4) or should I shut the VM down, copy the VHDX file and then create a new VM and use that VHDX
I just want to be cautious and use the best method to ensure it goes smooth and not worry about any corruption. Can anyone offer some advice?
thanks
It all depends on your environment and your current Hyper-V configuration.
I asume both servers are domain-member of the same domain and don't use SCVMM. If so, then make sure you do the following:
First enable the "Live Migration" feature in the Hyper-V settings on both Hyper-V Servers.
Make sure both Hyper-V Servers have a vSwitch configured with the same display name and connectivity. They must be somewhat identical, but not everything. As long as the connectivity is the same.
Make sure you have a location to store the VM files on SERVER2.
Then do a Live Migration from SERVER1 to SERVER2, follow the wizard. By using the Hyper-V Manager console on SERVER1.
NOTE1: Without computer certificates and Kerberos configuration on your Live Migration settings you cannot initiate a Live Migration from the Hyper-V Manager cconsole on SERVER2. With the default configuration, you have to login on (or connect
to) SERVER1 en then initiate the Live Migration.
NOTE2: If you can't configure the vSwitches the same. Then you have to shut down the VMs and do a Quick Migration. Then re-configure the VM network properties and power on the VMs.
I hope this information will help you goin on. If you need more detailed information use the following link:
Configure Live Migration and Migrating Virtual Machines without Failover Clustering
http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/jj134199.aspx
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Hyper-V 2012 R2, integration services issue on multiple VMs

Hello,
I came to you because we encounter a technical issue on one of our Hyper-V (2012 R2).
Our backup (Veeam backup in last version) are still failing with error :
Guest processing skipped (check guest OS VSS state and integration components version)
After checking integration service states of those VMs on the Hyper-V, we get this result :
Get-VM | ft Name, IntegrationServicesVersion
Name
IntegrationServicesVersion
xxx-3REP-01
6.3.9600.16384
xxx-ADMIN02
xxx-BAK02
6.3.9600.16384
xxx-MAIL-01
xxx-SCOM-01-1
6.3.9600.16384
xxx-SQL02
6.3.9600.16384
xxx-VC-01
6.3.9600.16384
xxx-VD01
xxx-VMM02
xxx-VMM03
xxx-WEB01
Get-VMIntegrationService xxx-vmm02 | Select Name,OperationalStatus
Name
OperationalStatus
Time Synchronization
{Ok}
Heartbeat
{Ok, Ok}
Key-Value Pair Exchange                                  {LostCommunication}
Shutdown
{LostCommunication}
VSS
{LostCommunication}
Guest Service Interface                                     {LostCommunication}
I already try to disable, then enable the operationalStatus :
Disable-VMIntegrationService -VMName MyVM -Name VSS,Shutdown,"Key-Value Pair Exchange"
Enable-VMIntegrationService -VMName MyVM -Name VSS,Shutdown,"Key-Value Pair Exchange"
The status is OK, but If I retry my backup I have the same error.
So, is there a way to reinstall integration service component without rebooting ?
Many thanks for your help.

On the Windows VMs that are not 2012 R2, insert the Integration media ISO, install it, and reboot.
When all is done, run this:
# Input:
$HVHost = "YourHostHere"
# Processing:
$VMInfo = @()
Get-VM -ComputerName $HVHost | where { $_.State -eq "Running" } | % {
$Info = New-Object -TypeName psobject
$Info | Add-Member "VMName" $_.Name
$Info | Add-Member "IntegrationServicesVersion" $_.IntegrationServicesVersion
$OS = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $_.Name { (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem).version } -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$Info | Add-Member "OSVersion" $OS
$VMInfo += $Info
# Output:
$VMInfo | Out-GridView
$VMInfo | FT -AutoSize
$VMInfo | Export-Csv .\VMInfo.csv -NoTypeInformation
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Create failover cluster to host Windows 2012 DC, Exchange 2013 and SQL as VMs

One of our clients has running Windows Essential 2012, SQL and exchange 2007 as VM on VMware for 4 years without major issue. However, the physical server is getting old and have some hardware issues recently. They have budgets to buy two Dell servers, EqualLogic
SAN, Windows server 2012 Datacenter and Exchange 2013. Is it possible for them to create failover cluster to host Windows 2012 DC, Exchange 2013 and SQL as VMs?
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We will move all VMs from VMware to Hyper-V. Thank you.
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Monitoring Hyper-V 2012 R2 - Performance Data/Graphs Equivalent to XenCenter/vSphere Client

Hello,
We've just moved away from Xenserver (hooray!) to Hyper-v 2012 R2, but I must admit the best thing about xenserver was xencenter. The ability to see the real time performance of a VM and see its network utlisation/CPU/Memory was very very useful. Also the
same for VMWare vsphere client.
Although Hyper-V 2012 R2 is a lot better than xenserver the realtime monitoring of VM's is awful!
We have SCVMM but that doesn't give you much either, only average CPU data..and only when it decides it will show the graph!
I've tried a few free tools, VMTurbo, Solarwinds VM Monitor (free - which doesn't support 2012 R2) plus some others...but none give us what we want.
I've seen all these other posts about monitoring reports etc which are all good and well but when you need real-time data how are people getting this? We don't want OM as we cannot afford it nor do we want the excess of managing it (not even sure if this
would give us what we want).
Can anyone give me ideas of what they are using for this or what products, I feel MS have messed up a bit here, if they had these features in Hyper-v Manager/Failover Cluster Manager then it would be on a par with VMWare for sure.
Many thanks
Matt

Update:
I've got a trail license of SCOM and installed it and connected to SCVMM (eventually...what a pain having to install extra packages etc!! good stuff MS! You'd think as SCVMM is part of the System Center family it would be easy to connect to SCOM)
I also got the free version of VeamOne as suggested by Leonardo.
SCOM is too complicated and requires far too much configuration just to get simple monitoring from Hyper-V and I really can't believe you need all this extra software just to get performance graphs from Hyper-V/VM's. Really don't want to install extra agents
on the hosts etc goes against Hyper-V best practice about keeping the servers light. Plus even trying to get simple data out of SCOM is tiresome.
VeamOne on the other hand...for a free product does exactly what SCVMM 'should' be doing.
Plus very useful extra info/alert that SCVMM doesn't even show up which I wasn't aware of, SCOM probably would show these alerts after you've spent days and days trying to figure out how to configure it and reading loads of articles.
So unless there is some hidden gem in SCVMM then it needs to be improved greatly on the monitoring side to fully compare with VMWare I believe as the idea of having to setup/configure SCOM just for monitoring is ridiculous.
I'm going to stick with VeamOne for now as its simple, gives me the info I require.

Server 2012: Enabling replication hangs

Hello All,
I have setup replication between 2 Hyper-V 2012 server clusters. When enabling the replication of a VM, everything looks fine. The Replica Server is found. All settings are correct and the replica server is reachable over the used tcp port.
When I click finish, I see a progress bar, stating "Enabling Replication..." which never disappears. Only when hitting Alt-F4, the bar disappears, but then I'll get back to the wizard.
It doesn't matter what setting a set for initial replication.
How can I troubleshoot this?
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A thing to note: Replication is actually working. It's only the interface that keeps hanging. When pressing Alt-F4, the Enabling Replication progress bar disappears and replication is setup. The initial replication than has to be started. This results
in a similar hanging progress bar. But once again Alt-F4 and the initial replication is setup also!
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VM Protection running on Hyper-V 2012 R2 with DPM 2010

Hi everyone,
We recently setup a new Hyper-V 2012 R2 server hosting virtual machine running with a Win2012 R2 server OS and 2008R2 standard Edition
Our backup solution is still running DPM 2010.
As I understand from the DPM Protection Support Matrix, You can only protect virtual machine running on a hyper-v server under Windows 2012 R2 OS with DPM 2012 R2. Isn't there possible any walkaround to have the vm protection working on dpm2010?
Otherwise, if we choose to protect the VM at guest level instead of host-level, is DPM able to perform the recovery point?
For instance, we've got a VM running a SQL database. We would like specifically to back up that SQL database running on that virtual machine.Is DPM able to perfom that job?
Regards,
Evan

Hi,
To remain in a supported configuration you need to a DPM 2012 R2 server to protect the Windows 2012 R2 hyper-v server. Unfortunately, the path to get there from DPM 2012 is not an easy one.
Upgrade steps.
Note: the Operating system and SQL requirements for DPM 2012
System Requirements for DPM in System Center 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757757.aspx
1) On DPM 2010 install the latest update: KB2751231 Description of hotfix rollup package 7 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
2) Update the Agents to 3.0.8195.0
3) Backup the DPM 2010 database.
4) Upgrade to DPM 2012 and update agents.
5) Install the latest DPM 2012 update and Update agents.
6) Backup the DPM 2012 database.
7) Upgrade to DPM 2012 Sp1 and update agents.
Note: The Operating system and SQL requirements for DPM 2012 Sp1
System Requirements for DPM in System Center 2012 Sp1
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj651645.aspx
8) Install the latest DPM 2012 Sp1 update and update agents.
KB2904723-Issues that are fixed in System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1 Update Rollup 5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904723
KB2904730-Description of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904730
9) Continue to DPM 2012 R2..
Note: the Operating system and SQL requirements for DPM 2012 R2.
System Requirements for DPM in System Center 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh758176.aspx
10) Backup the DPM 2012 Sp1 database.
11) Upgrade to DPM 2012 R2 and update agents
12) Install latest DPM 2012 R2 update and update agents.
Else, you could stand up a new dedicated DPM 2012 R2 server from scratch to protect that new server and leave the DPM 2010 as is for current protection.
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Authorization manager (azman) for hyper-v control with replication

I am using a pair of server 2012 machines for hyper-v hosts with replication enabled and I need to use azman to set up users who are authorized to manage (start/stop/restart) selected VMs only. The instructions I have seen use the hyper-v XML data
store. I have not seen a way to replicate the data store between the 2 hyper-v hosts. Assuming that I set up duplicate authorizations on the 2 machines, do I need to set the VM scope on both servers or just the primary server of the replication
pair. I do not have a pair of servers to test with so I will be using test VMs on the production hosts.
The process seems straightforward until replication is added.

1) Azman is supposed to work in Server 2012. I have not seen any other way to implement the user-level control of selected VMs using the Server 2012 OS. I am trying to avoid the additional cost of SCVMM to accomplish what is supported by the
OS in server 2008 and 2012.
2) I don't understand the intersection between VM replication and user control on the hosts, hence the question. If replication, once set up, only replicates changes on the VHD then I probably need to set up duplicate scopes and authorities on the
two replication partner hosts. If replication is smart enough to replication the scope information then the scopes need to be defined only on the primary server. This part of the question seems to have been answered in an earlier response - the
scopes (and I assume the Azman authorizations) need to be set up on both servers. If this is the case then my only problem is accomplishing what can be done in server 2008 and 2012 un server 2012R2 without using azman or SCVMM.

Hyper-V 2012 Standalone replica

Hello all,
I am trying to set up a POC using 2x Hyper-V 2012 standalone machines. 1 host has a virtual machine that is going to replication to another host across WAN.
I've read that if I am using two standalone boxes, I must use certificates for replication. I have installed a GoDaddy wildcard cert however when I try to enable certificate based authentication, I get a "No valid certificate found" error. I have checked
the requirements based on this blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2012/03/13/hyper-v-replica-certificate-requirements.aspx
but I still get same error. Any ideas?
Thanks,
T

Hi,
Hyper-V replica support both Kerberos authentication and Certificate authentication. While for standalone Hyper-V host, you can only use Certificate authentication.
You can either provide an existing X.509v3 certificate or create a self-signed certificate. If you are already using a certificate server or public key infrastructure (PKI) system, you can use an existing certificate, provided that it meets the following
criteria:
The certificate must not be expired or revoked.
The certificate must include both client and server authentication extensions for enhanced key usage (EKU) and an associated private key.
The certificate must terminate at a valid root certificate in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store on the Replica server.
If the virtual machine is hosted by a standalone server, the subject common name (CN) must be equal to (or the subject alternative name—DNS name) should contain the FQDN of the host. If the virtual machine is hosted by a failover cluster, the subject common
name (CN) must be equal to (or the subject alternative name—DNS name) should contain the FQDN of the Hyper-V Replica Broker.
For more information please refer to following MS articles:
Prepare to Deploy Hyper-V Replica
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134153.aspx
Understand and Troubleshoot Hyper-V Replica
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29016
Demonstrate Planned Failover in Hyper-V Replica
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831759.aspx
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