Lab: Implementing Hyper-V Replica and Windows Server Backup

You’re working as an administrator at Contoso, Ltd. Contoso wants to assess and configure new disaster recovery and backup features and technologies. As the system administrator, you have been tasked with performing that assessment and implementation. You decided to evaluate Hyper-V Replica and Windows Server Backup.

After completing this lab, you’ll be able to:

• Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica.
• Configure and implement backup with Windows Server Backup.

Estimated time: 45 minutes

Virtual machines: WS-011T00A-SEA-DC1, WS-011T00A-SEA-SVR1, WS-011T00A-SEA-SVR2, and WS-011T00A-SEA-ADM1

User name: Contoso\Administrator

Password: Pa55w.rd

1. Ensure that the SEA-DC1, SEA-ADM1, SEA-SVR1, and SEA-SVR2 virtual machines (VMs) are running.
2. Select SEA-ADM1.
3. Sign in by using the following credentials:
   • User name: Administrator
   • Password: Pa55w.rd
   • Domain: Contoso
4. When instructed in the lab, repeat these steps for SEA-DC1, SEA-SVR1, and SEA-SVR2.

Before you start with a cluster deployment, you have decided to evaluate the new technology in Hyper-V for replicating VMs between hosts. You want to be able to manually mount a copy of a VM on another host if the active copy or host fails.

The main tasks for this exercise are to:

1. Configure a replica on both host machines: SEA-SVR1 and SEA-SVR2.
2. Configure replication for the SEA-CORE1 VM.
3. Validate a failover.

1. On SEA-ADM1, open Windows PowerShell as an administrator.

2. In the PowerShell window, create a new remote PowerShell session to sea-svr1.contoso.com. Use Contoso\Administrator credentials to connect to the remote PowerShell on SEA-SVR1.

3. In the remote PowerShell session on sea-svr1.contoso.com, use the Enable-Netfirewallrule cmdlet to enable the firewall rule named Hyper-V Replica HTTP Listener (TCP-In).

4. Use the Get-Netfirewallrule cmdlet to verify that the Hyper-V Replica HTTP Listener (TCP-In) rule is enabled.

5. Use the following command to configure SEA-SVR1 for Hyper-V Replica:

   Set-VMReplicationServer -ReplicationEnabled $true -AllowedAuthenticationType Kerberos -ReplicationAllowedFromAnyServer $true -DefaultStorageLocation c:\ReplicaStorage

6. Use the Get-VM cmdlet to verify that the SEA-CORE1 VM is present on SEA-SVR1.

7. Open a new remote PowerShell session for sea-svr2.contoso.com in a new PowerShell window. Repeat steps 2 through 5 to configure SEA-SVR2 for Hyper-V Replica.

1. Switch to the PowerShell window where you have the remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr1.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Enable-VMReplication SEA-CORE1 -ReplicaServerName SEA-SVR2.contoso.com -ReplicaServerPort 80 -AuthenticationType Kerberos -computername SEA-SVR1.contoso.com

2. Start replication with the following command:

   Start-VMInitialReplication SEA-CORE1

3. After you’ve verified that you didn’t receive any error message from the previous command, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Get-VMReplication

   This command retrieves the replication status.

   In the result table, search for the value in the State column. It should be InitialReplicationInProgress. Wait for 4–5 minutes, and then repeat this command. Verify that the value in the State column is Replicating. Don’t proceed to the next steps until you get this value. Also ensure that Primary server is set to SEA-SVR1 and that ReplicaServer is set to SEA-SVR2.

4. Switch to the PowerShell window where you have the remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr2.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   get-vm

   Verify that you now have the SEA-CORE1 VM on SEA-SVR2. This means that the VM successfully replicated.

1. Switch to the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr1.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Start-VMFailover -Prepare -VMName SEA-CORE1 -computername SEA-SVR1.contoso.com

2. Switch to the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr2.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Start-VMFailover -VMName SEA-CORE1 -computername SEA-SVR2.contoso.com

3. In the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr2.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Set-VMReplication -Reverse -VMName SEA-CORE1 -computername SEA-SVR2.contoso.com

4. In the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr2.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Start-VM -VMName SEA-CORE1 -computername SEA-SVR2.contoso.com

5. In the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr2.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Get-VM

   In the result table, search for the value in the State column. It should be Running.

6. In the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr2.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Get-VMReplication

   In the result table, search for the value the in the State column. It should be Replicating. Additionally, ensure that the Primary server is now set to SEA-SVR2 and that ReplicaServer is set to SEA-SVR1.

7. In the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr2.contoso.com, enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Stop-VM SEA-CORE1

8. Close the PowerShell sessions.

You must evaluate Windows Server Backup for your member servers. You decided to configure Windows Server Backup of the SEA-SVR1 server and to perform a trial backup to the network share on SEA-ADM1.

The main tasks for this exercise are to:

1. Configure Windows Server Backup on SEA-SVR1.
2. Perform a backup to the network share on SEA-ADM1.

1. Use File Explorer to create a C:\BackupShare folder on SEA-ADM1. Share the folder so that Authenticated Users have Read/Write permissions.
2. In PowerShell, create a new remote PowerShell session to sea-svr1.contoso.com. Use Contoso\Administrator credentials to connect to the remote PowerShell on SEA-SVR1.
3. Use the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet to install the Windows-Server-Backup feature on SEA-SVR1.
4. Use the wbadmin /? and Get-Command commands to get a list of the available commands for Windows Server Backup.

1. In the PowerShell window where you have a remote PowerShell session opened for sea-svr1.contoso.com, enter the following commands, and then select Enter:

   $Policy = New-WBPolicy
   
   $Filespec = New-WBFileSpec -FileSpec "C:\Files"

2. After running the commands from the previous step, where you defined the variables for the backup policy and the file path to the backup, add this to the backup policy by entering the following command, and then selecting Enter:

   Add-WBFileSpec -Policy $Policy -FileSpec $FileSpec

3. Now, you must configure a backup location on the SEA-AD1 network share by entering the following commands, and then selecting Enter:

   $Cred = Get-Credential
   $NetworkBackupLocation = New-WBBackupTarget -NetworkPath "\\SEA-ADM1\BackupShare" -Credential $Cred

   Note: When you receive the sign-in prompt, sign in as Contoso\Administrator with password Pa55w.rd.

4. Now you must add this backup location to the backup policy by entering the following command, and then selecting Enter (if prompted, enter Y, and then select Enter):

   Add-WBBackupTarget -Policy $Policy -Target $NetworkBackupLocation

5. Before starting a backup job, you must configure more options to enable Volume Shadow Copy Service backup by entering the following command, and then selecting Enter:

   Set-WBVssBackupOptions -Policy $Policy -VssCopyBackup

6. To start a backup job, in order to back up the content of the C:\Files folder on SEA-SVR1 to a network share on SEA-ADM1, you must enter the following command, and then select Enter:

   Start-WBBackup -Policy $Policy

   Wait until you receive a « The backup operation completed » message.

7. On SEA-ADM1, open File Explorer, and then browse to C:\BackupShare. Open the folder, and then ensure that the backup files are there.