Using Hvrcapacityplanner to evaluate Hyper-V replica environments

We know that Microsoft introduced the Hyper-V replica technology in the release of hyper-v3.0, which is a free disaster recovery tool in Hyper-V to create and maintain replicas of virtual machines (VMS) that, in the event of catastrophic loss, can be transferred to a replica virtual machine, enabling a rapid recovery of the production environment, to some extent ensuring Service continuity.

A detailed introduction to Hyper-V replica technology can be found in the previously written blog post: Hyper-V Server Replica

http://ericxuting.blog.51cto.com/8995534/1600837

Today, we introduce a planning and evaluation tool for Microsoft-capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica, which helps administrators to successfully deploy Hyper-V replica servers from a combination of server, storage, and networking considerations.

This tool can be downloaded from Microsoft's official website:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39057

After the download is complete, copy the tool to the Hyper-V server and run the tool as an administrator

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Enter a suitable time value according to your actual environment, default is 30 minutes

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Select your primary replica server name, or the cluster replica proxy

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Select the replica server, if your replica server is a clustered server, you will need to type the "hyper-V Replica Broker" name

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Hyper-V 2012R2 supports extended replica servers (the third replica server), and you can skip the server if you do not have an extended replica server in your environment

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Select a Hyper-V virtual machine to perform replication

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As you are prompted to do this, you need to perform a power-on operation on a virtual machine only if the virtual machine is in a running state and no replication-enabled virtual machines are listed.

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Only one virtual machine "Server01" is running in the current environment

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Network Bandwidth Settings page, set your network bandwidth based on the actual environment of your enterprise, while the tool generates a temporary VM of approximately 10GB to test the bandwidth performance of the Hyper-V replica server intersite replication link.

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As described in the previous article, Hyper-V replica technical support is performed using certificates, so you can also choose to base on the available certificate methods

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Summary page, confirm that all settings are correct and click Next to begin testing and evaluation

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Start calculation, wait for test and evaluation to complete

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If you have the following issues, then you need to check if your infrastructure is meeting your needs and follow the prompts to resolve the conflict. I am currently failing because 80 port is not set

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One of the temporary virtual machines mentioned earlier

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Click "View" to view the generated report file when you are finished.

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You can also find the relevant log files and corresponding report files in the following directory: C:\Users\Public\Documents\CapacityPlanner

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Open the log file to see a temporary VM created

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Double-click to open the report file to see a lot of information that helps with Hyper-V replicas. This report is mainly divided into: Hyper-V Replica Site server information and Hyper-V replica server site hit replication performance metrics, including CPU, memory, IOPS, storage, network, etc. two parts.

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Microsoft's official capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica tool provides good performance analysis by generating reports that directly reflect issues in the enterprise's existing environment, Effectively helps administrators to design better-performing hyper-V replication environments For more efficient implementation of Hyper-V disaster recovery.

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Using Hvrcapacityplanner to evaluate Hyper-V replica environments