Chapter 1: Introducing Hyper-V Replica 5
Understanding virtualization 5
Hyper-V 3.0 features 5
Prerequisites for Hyper-V Replica 7
Installing Hyper-V 7
Hyper-V Replica functionalities 10
Hyper-V Replica replication manager 10
Hyper-V Replica replication tracker 10
Hyper-V Replica broker manager 11
Security considerations 11
Summary 12
Chapter 2: Failover Clustering 13
The Server Message Block protocol 13
Installing and configuring the SMB server 14
Setting up iSCSI connections 18
Setting up networking 21
Setting up security permissions on SMB file shares 23
Setting up a failover cluster 23
Migration of virtual machines 29
Summary 31
Chapter 3: Configuring Hyper-V Replica 33
Hyper-V Replica requirements 33
Hyper-V Replica in standalone Hyper-V hosts environment 34
Configuring Hyper-V replica on a server in a replica site 34
Configuring virtual machines for replication 36
Configuring firewall rules 46
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Virtual machine replication in Failover Cluster environment 49
Failover scenarios 51
Test failover 52
Planned failover 52
Unplanned failovers 53
Summary 53
Chapter 4: Authentication in Hyper-V Replica 55
Hyper-V Replica authentication types 55
Nonencrypted communication 56
Encrypted communication 57
Creating a certificate template 58
Requesting and importing a certificate 64
Authenticating with a self-signed certificate 69
Summary 69
Chapter 5: Administrating Hyper-V Replica 71
Managing Hyper-V Replica 71
Primary site management 72
Replica site management 73
Administration of certificates 75
Summary 76
Summary 77
Index 79
