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Some help with Hyper-V Replication

Hi

We have a Hyper-V 2012 environment and I am just in the process of setting up Replication to our DR site.

I am using the GUI to do this which is going very well, now I would like to do our two SQL servers. The logs and data are stored on different VHDs so I understand I need to use the "EnableWriteOrderPreservationAcrossDisks"

I have checked out the TechNet article on "Set-VMReplication" but I am very unfamiliar with PS and how I would form a script out of these commands to set up replication.

Can I set up replication via the GUI and then run "EnableWriteOrderPreservationAcrossDisks"? Or is it not possible to use this cmdlet on it's own?

Many thanks

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Rob Stone

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Many thanks for your reply. I found the -WhatIf command very useful and came up with the following:

Set-VMReplication -VMName SQL1 -ReplicaServerName REP1 -ReplicaServerPort 80 -AuthenticationType Kerberos -CompressionEnabled $TRUE -EnableWriteOrderPreservationAcrossDisks $TRUE

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Followed by:

Start-VMInitialReplication -VMName SQL1

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Rob Stone

Great stuff.

As I said, if you have the time spend some time learning the basics. A few sites which I found good when learning PS were:
http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/

And for some excellent scripts which you can modify to suit your own needs:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/