Hyper-V failed to enable replication for virtual machine 'Machinename': Incorrect funciton. (0x8007001)

Question

When enabling replication on several VM's, I receive Hyper-V failed to enable replication for virtual machine "virtualmachinename": Incorrect funciton. (0x8007001). However this error doesn't happen to all VM's and it isn't related to any
particular host.
I've traced this down to a VSS error, however when running ">vssadmin list providers", I receive the following indicating there are no errors:
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
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Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Cluster Shared Volume VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {1072ae1c-e5a7-4ea1-9e4a-6f7964656570}
   Writer Instance Id: {fab685fb-d333-4744-b46a-c63fc6360737}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
   Writer Instance Id: {5583acc3-a218-4ce6-bce9-93ff551ad8aa}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {dd5f1635-d7ce-434b-84f7-9aaf216d5339}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Cluster Database'
   Writer Id: {41e12264-35d8-479b-8e5c-9b23d1dad37e}
   Writer Instance Id: {0a0f16ab-b57a-4403-9059-1ea7aa3abc90}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {ce09aaff-1515-4240-b5a5-8c2710a4163a}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {faee5f76-086d-454c-afdb-4f8391c0ed7d}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {2b649ed6-9451-40d8-b45d-e11f171aca87}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {3cd0e01a-62a9-4ba4-b6dc-277a66719ae0}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {f10f17aa-c8e7-42ee-84df-ed2bbf3ac187}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {45e94e87-c253-45d5-942a-462f3fece288}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
The providers I'm using are:
Provider name: 'Microsoft CSV Shadow Copy Helper Provider'
   Provider type: Software
   Provider Id: {26d02d81-6aac-4275-8504-b9c6edc5261d}
   Version: 1.0.0.1
Provider name: 'Microsoft CSV Shadow Copy Provider'
   Provider type: Software
   Provider Id: {400a2ff4-5eb1-44b0-8a05-1fcac0bcf9ff}
   Version: 1.0.0.1
Provider name: 'Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider'
   Provider type: Fileshare
   Provider Id: {89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}
   Version: 1.0.0.1
Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
   Provider type: System
   Provider Id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
   Version: 1.0.0.7
Provider name: 'Dell EqualLogic VSS HW Provider'
   Provider type: Hardware
   Provider Id: {d4689bdf-7b60-4f6e-9afb-2d13c01b12ea}
   Version: 4.6.0
Has anyone run into this before?
-Jeremy Houp

Answer 1

Hi Jeremy,
Hyper-v replica broker is needed if you want to enable replica for hyper-v cluster .
Please refer to following link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134153.aspx
Also:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/archive/2013/01/10/hyper-v-replica-explained.aspx
Best Regards
Elton JI
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