Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Praveen Vijayaraghavan,MSFT — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:58:31 GMT

Hi Raphael,

You can download the Hyper-V Server 2012 RC edition from www.microsoft.com/.../default.aspx. Can you give it a shot with this download?

Praveen

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

raphaelzagha — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:04:54 GMT

Praveen, Thank you for the suggestions... I had restarted the vmms from services.msc on .125 and rebooted both HV servers. I will try the other options mentioned but, as I was building the HV hosts I could not find a newer version of HV server 8 to match the then available Server 2012 (8400)

Thank you again.

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Praveen Vijayaraghavan,MSFT — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:38:57 GMT

Hi Raphael,

Please ensure that you are running the RC build (8400) on all the servers. The error message seems to indicate that the system encountered a failure when loading the WMI object - which typically is seen when there is a build mismatch.

You can also try the following workaround - but there are *no* guarantees - restart vmms on 192.168.20.125 ("net stop vmms" followed by "net start vmms"). Also check if you are the admin or part of the Hyper-V administrator user group on 192.168.20.125. But to reiterate, the best option is to get all 3 servers on the same build.

Praveen

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

raphaelzagha — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:29:18 GMT

Apologies if this is a duplicate

Praveen, I put screen shots at skydrive.live.com

I cannot make my HV 8 hosts into replica targets or have the guest VMs replicate to a targer.

I disabled the firewall on both HV 8 hosts to test.

HV8 hosts (HV1 and HV2 in screen shots) Version 6.2.8250

Server 2012 Version 6.2.8400

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Praveen Vijayaraghavan,MSFT — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:35:31 GMT

Hi Raphael,

You should be able to enable replication on the free version as well. Can you please help me with the repro steps, build which you are using and the exact error message which you got (screen shots if possible).

Praveen

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Raphael — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:00:19 GMT

I'm guessing that the free hypervisor does not include the ability to replicate... Can you please confirm this?

I have installed two HV server 8 and one server 2012 for management. I can enable replication on the server 2012 but if I try to do so on the HV server 8 I get Load Failed and a message about "object was not found"

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Praveen — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:51:37 GMT

To Erik - Yes, you can complete the initial replication by seeding from a backup copy which is available in the replica site. Your feedback on documenting this procedure is taken, I will try to get a blog article out on this shortly.

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Red-Erik — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:21:18 GMT

Hi, tryng to figure out how to optimaze Initial Replication for large amount of data. Any "seeding" technology ?!? Is it possibile to start replication from a backup/restore procedure ?!? Tnx in advance.

Red

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Emmanuel De Smet — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:29:15 GMT

Hello Praveen,

THIS WAS THE SOLUTION !!!!

Thanx 2U Thousand times !!

re: Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica

Praveen-MSFT — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:49:28 GMT

Hi Emmanuel,

The UTG had an error in Appendix C which was rectified recently. The registry key node (in the updated UTG, page 82), now reads:

"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization\Replication" - can you please rerun the reg add command and let me know if it addresses your problem. If the problem persists, please feel free to send me the screen shot over mail.

Praveen