What are the steps to re-enable replication if replica-server lost the replicated vms?

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We just lost our logical drive for a few replicated VMs and couldn't restore them. Now we ran into the issue that we can't re-enable the replication process on the primary Hyper-V Host.

We get the following error:

[Window Title] Enable Replication [Main Instruction] Enabling replication failed. [Content] Hyper-V failed to enable replication. [Expanded Information] Hyper-V failed to enable replication for virtual machine 'printserver02': Unspecified error (0x80004005). (Virtual machine ID 40D90686-7ECC-4162-83A9-BF3457D24AF9)

We tried to remove any information of the lost vms in Hyper-V configuration (ProgrammData, AppData), restartet the machine, but no luck.

Is there a way to achieve this the correct way without resetting VMId by duplicating the vms?

replication
windows-server-2019
asked on Server Fault Sep 16, 2020 by ptr2n0

1 Answer

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Hyper-V reinstall solved this issue for us.

  1. Remove Hyper-V
  2. Delete Hyper-V files from C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V
  3. Reinstall Hyper-V

We use Certificate based authentication, so we had to create new certificate on replica server.

After these steps we was able to re-enable replication.

answered on Server Fault Apr 8, 2021 by balint

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