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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Configuring Hyper-V Replica to use certificate-based authentication using an Enterprise CA


Hyper-V Replica brings you all that you need to build your Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and also provides you with a Disaster Recovery environment for virtualized workloads.

With its simple configuration and a couple of clicks, you can start replicating your virtual machine to a different site with low cost and high reliability. However, the out-of-box experience using HTTP to replicate data does not provide encryption during the transfer to the other site.

This recipe will show you how to use an Enterprise Certification Authority (CA) to obtain a certificate to replicate the virtual machine data using HTTPS.

Getting ready

In order to request a digital certificate, you will need to have an Enterprise CA already installed and configured. Use the Server Manager to install Active Directory Certificate Services and then to configure an Enterprise CA in case you don't have one.

You can also use PowerShell...