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Replicate hyper-v VMs from site to another site

Hello,

I need help, we've site A which has a hyper-v environment running and we want to replicate all VMs to site B and there are no direct connections between the two sites moreover we are unable to connect external storage in site A to export all VMs.

Are there any other solutions for our situation, can we use a Hyper-V replica between the two sites using the internet.


Thanks,

windows-server-hyper-v
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cooldadtx answered

Not sure what Hyper-V has to do with this really because it just sounds like you want to copy the really large VMs from one machine to another. Therefore standard file copying processes work. Option 1 would be to copy the VMs to a network drive that both machines have access to. If that doesn't work then perhaps to a cloud provider like OneDrive or GoogleDocs or something, keeping in mind these files are generally huge.

If that isn't an option then you have no choice but to use external storage or something as there is no other way to copy the files short of removing the drive from one machine and putting it into the other.

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Hello @AhmedEssam-4837

  1. You can use ftp and point the location of your VMs location to copy.

  2. You can use Hyper-V Replication over internet but you need to setup up vpn between two sites so that they can communicate with each other using hostname.

Please also have a look on below Microsoft article.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/manage/set-up-hyper-v-replica

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