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Recipe: Create a Hyper-V Replication Job with Seeding

Expected deliverables:

A Veeam Replication Job to replicate Hyper-V VMs from a source Hyper-V host to a target Hyper-V host, by leveraging existing backups on the offsite backup repository.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• Hyper-V Virtual infrastructure must have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured. That means adding source and target Hyper-V clusters (recommended) or standalone Hyper-V hosts.
• If you want to perform backup in the off-host backup mode, the off-host backup proxy must also be added and properly configured, otherwise you can use the Hyper-V hosts as on-host Backup Proxies.
• Backup repository for replica metadata. Deduplicating appliances and Scale-out Backup repositories aren’t supported.
• Valid backups of all the Replica VMs in the offsite backup repository. If a VM has missing backups, it will be skipped from processing.

Before you start:

The target datastore must have enough free space to store disks of replicated VMs. The offsite repository cannot be a scale-out backup repository.

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment. If you need to install Veeam Backup Server, please refer to “Installing Veeam Backup & Replication All-In-One Base system” recipe.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
2. On the Home view. On the ribbon, click Replication Job > Virtual machine > Microsoft Hyper-V.
3. At the Name step of the wizard, specify a job name and description. Select the Replica seeding (for low bandwidth DR sites) checkbox. Click Next.
4. At the Virtual Machines step of the wizard, select VMs and VM containers (Hyper-V hosts, clusters, SCVMM, SCVMM tags, SCVMM host groups, VM groups, or volumes) that you want to replicate. Click Add, then in the Add Object window select the necessary VMs or VM containers and click Add. Click Next.
5. At the Destination step, select a target host or cluster (recommended)and next to the Path field, click Choose and specify a path to the folder where VM replica files must be stored. Click Next.
6. At the Job Settings step, select a backup repository that will store metadata for VM replicas.
   • In the Replica name suffix field, enter a suffix that will be added to the original VM names
   • In the Restore points to keep field, specify the number of restore points that the job must maintain (Max 47).
7. At the Data Transfer step, if you want to use off-host Backup Proxy, click Choose and select the Source proxy , otherwise click Choose and select On-host backup in the Backup Proxy window. Leave Direct option selected and click Next.
8. At the Define Seeding and Mapping Settings step, check Get seed from the following backup repository and select the repository where your replica seeds are stored. Click Next.
9. At the Guest Processing step, keep Enable application-aware processing option unchecked. If you need Guest Processing please refer to the “Create a Hyper-V Replication Job with Guest Processing for Windows VMs” or “for Linux VMs” recipe. Click Next.
10. At the Schedule step of the wizard, select to run the replication job manually or schedule the job to run on a regular basis.
11. At the Summary step of the wizard, review details of the replication job. If you want to start the job right after you close the wizard, select the Run the job when I click Finish check box, otherwise leave the check box unselected. Then click Finish to close the wizard

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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