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Configuring Hyper-V Replicas

1 hour

3 Learning Objectives

You are working on configuring your Hyper-V environment for high availability. As part of the effort, you want to create Hyper-V Replicas for your application server. You want to make sure that the application servers are configured properly so they can be replicated. In order to do this, in this hands-on lab, you are going to be installing Hyper-V and using it to enable replication between different virtual machines.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment

Install Active Directory Domain Services
- Download the installadds PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
Create the Domain Admin user
- Download the domainadmin PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
Join the server VMs to the domain
- Download the domainjoin PowerShell script from the GitHub repository

Configure the Hyper-V Environment

Install Hyper-V on both servers
- Download the installhyperv PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
Create the Hyper-V VM on server1
- Download the createvm PowerShell script from the GitHub repository

Configure Replication

Configure server2 as a replica server using Kerberos authentication over port 80
Enable the Hyper-V Replica HTTP Listener (TCP-In) firewall rule on server2
Enable Hyper-V VM replication on server1 with the Domain Admin credentials
Check replication health

Additional Resources

Lab Prerequisites

You should be familiar with the following to use this hands-on lab:

Windows Server
Active Directory Domain Services
Hyper-V

Lab Setup

This lab will require the use of an Active Directory domain, so the first thing that will need to be done will be to configure the domain. Because this environment will be set up on Azure Virtual Machines, there will be a few Azure-specific steps that will need to be taken and will be delineated in the lab objectives.

Lab Files

The lab files needed for configuring the Active Directory Domain Services environment can be accessed via the GitHub repository for this lab.

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