From the course: Windows Server 2019: High Availability

How to add the Hyper-V Replica Broker role - Windows Server Tutorial

From the course: Windows Server 2019: High Availability

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How to add the Hyper-V Replica Broker role

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- [Instructor] When you create a set of virtual machines in a cluster, it makes them highly available. The problem occurs when your sand storage fails or too many nodes fail in the cluster. There is also a risk of an internet outage or fire, or flood that would make that location unusable. Fortunately, there's a way to deal with these issues by replicating the virtual machines offsite. The first thing we need to do is to install the Replica Broker role on our failover cluster manager. We'll go to configure role and the wizard comes up and now we'll choose Hyper-V Replica Broker. We need to put in the name that clients will use when accessing the cluster role. So we'll just put in Broker Server, but you can put anything you want. And just make sure it's added into the DNS manager. We'll click next, and finish. We see that the role is pending. We can go down into the server name itself, go to the IPv4, IP address and we can go in and change that to a static IP address. We can also go in and right-click on each of the IPv6 addresses and remove them if you're not using IPv6, so we can avoid any kind of resolution issue. And now our broker server is running. There's two different types of servers that we can replicate this to. One would be a standard Hyper-V server and the other would be another cluster running multiple nodes as servers. For this demonstration we don't have a second cluster but we do have another server running Hyper-V. So we'll go ahead and connect to that and we'll right-click and choose Replication Settings. By default these are turned off. We're going to use Kerberos HTTP but if you have a certificate you can use HTTPS. Now we're going to choose to allow replication from any authenticated server and we're going to choose our default location to store replica files. Now we're not going to be replicating anything to this server but it is a requirement to put that information in. Just go ahead and choose the volume one of our cluster shared volume, click apply. It also mentions we do need to configure the firewall to allow inbound traffic on port 80. If we were going to replicate to another cluster we would do this through failover cluster manager. We would right-click and we would choose to replicate, choosing Enable Replication. If we're going to replicate to another Hyper-V server we would do it through Hyper-V manager. We'd simply right-click and choose Enable Replication and a wizard would come up. By adding the Replica Broker, and an offsite copy of your virtual machines, you add an additional layer of high-availability to your infrastructure.

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