Enabling Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V Replica is simple to configure, and the easiest way to understand how it
works is to walk through its setup options and enable replication for a virtual
machine. The first step in using Hyper-V Replica is to configure the replica Hyper-V
server to accept requests for it to host a replica. This is performed using Hyper-V
Manager. Select Hyper-V Settings from the server’s list of actions, and in Hyper-V
Settings, select the Replication Configuration list of configurations, as shown in
Figure 8.1. Select the Enable This Computer As A Replica Server check box. Then you
have a couple of choices to make.
Figure 8.1 Enabling inbound replication for a Hyper-V server
The first choice is to enable the use of Kerberos (which uses HTTP) or certificate-
based authentication (which uses HTTPS). Kerberos is the simpler option to
configure, but it requires that the primary and replica Hyper-V servers use Kerberos
authentication and therefore are part of the same Active Directory forest or trusted
domain. When using Kerberos, the replication of data between the primary and replica
is not encrypted and is sent over the standard HTTP port 80. If encryption is required,
the Windows IPsec implementation could be used. The other option is to use