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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By : Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By: Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Virtualization has proved that it can help organizations to reduce costs, and the Private Cloud has created a revolution in the way we manage and control our servers with centralization and elasticity. The new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V release from Microsoft comes with a myriad of improvements in areas such as mobility, high availability and elasticity, bringing everything you need to create, manage and build the core components of a Microsoft Private Cloud for virtualized workloads."Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is the perfect accompaniment for Hyper-V administrators looking to take advantage of all the exciting new features the release has to offer. Through practical recipes, you'll master Hyper-V deployment, migration and management. "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is an essential resource for any Hyper-V administrator looking to migrate, install and manage their virtual machine efficiently. With all the features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V covered, you will learn everything from installation to disaster recovery, security, high availability, configuration, automation, architecture and monitoring, all in a practical recipe format. The book also includes new features such as Storage and Shared Nothing Live Migration, Hyper-V Replica and Network Virtualization and much more.With "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" in hand, you'll be equipped to manage your Private Cloud with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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 your 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.

How to do it.....