Manual replica creation for Hyper-V

Question

We have several remote hyper-v hosts that we want to move to DPM. The problem is capturing the initial replica since the WAN bandwidth is limited.  The procedure for manually creating a file share replica is very straightforward. Is there a TechNet
article on manually creating a replica for a protected Hyper-V guest?  Has anyone gone through the process?
Rob

Answer 1

Better outline of the steps to seed replica.
Create the protection group on the DPM server and choose to protect the Hyper-V VM.  Choose to manually create the replica in the wizard.
Select the protected VM in the DPM console in the protection view. 
Click on the "Click to view details" to get the replica path.
Highlight the row listed and right-click, choose Copy
Paste the path it into notepad or equivalent
Copy the path from C:\ to the end to the clipboard. 
This path will be used in the following steps.
Go to a command line
Run psexec -s cmd to get a command shell as the system account
cd "C:\...." where C:\... is the pasted value from the copy above
cd "Virtual Machines"
cd servername where servername is the only subfolder in this directory
Copy the vhdx into this directory.
Rob
EDIT: Note that the path names I've listed above are dependent upon where your files are located.  You're path to the VHD will be the same as it is on the physical machine.  So if you keep your VHD in D:\myvm\myserver then your DPM path after the
GUID will be Full\D-VOL\myvm\myserver.  Copy the VHD into that folder.