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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Hyper-V Replica in Windows 8 Beta –Part 1

Product:- Hyper-V in Windows 8 Beta

In this article, we are going to start looking into Hyper-V Replica and this post is focus on how to view the replica from GUI and Power shell perspective.

GUI is nice to view on each individual VM Replica. To identity each virtual machine which is participate in Hyper-V Replica , you need to refer to“Replication Health” column or click on each individual VM and select Replication tab.

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

View Hyper-V Replica in Replication Health or Replication Tab

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To View Replication Health:- (Right click VM | Replication | View Replication Health)

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Let move on to view in Powershell. Using Powershell is very handy and give you a better view which list the entire Hyper-V Replica VM. Just a single command will do.

Powershell

View virtual machine replication information :-

Get-VmReplication

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View replication health using Powershell:-

Measure-VMReplication

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And of course – there is much more to come!