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Configuring Hyper-V Replicas

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.

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 16, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment

  2. Challenge

    Configure the Hyper-V Environment

  3. Challenge

    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

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