Hi,
I have been testing Hyper-V Replica and all has been going quite well in a test environment.
When applying the same knowledge to a production environment i'm seeing strange results. I have a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V server in a workgroup running a guest SBS 2011 VM with two drives, one is 131GB and the other is 314GB. I have moved the pagefile onto a third vhdx which isn't being replicated over to our replica partner.
Looking into the VM's, there is minimal file structure change but yet i see lot's of big .hrl files being queued up for replication. I've been through the majority of the files on the SBS server to make sure file changes are a minimum, i.e. IIS / Exchange logs and having kept an eye on the server throughout the day i can't see any big increases in storage consumption on the partitions. within 7 hours today i can see that i have 11.5GB of .hrl files waiting to ship over to the replica partner. The SBS server is running on an ADSL line is being crippled due to the upload.
From my test environment, after moving the pagefile onto a drive that wasnt being replicated i was seeing average .hrl files of KB's rather than GB's. Does anybody have any advice on where the huge file sizes can be coming from ?
This is already my third seed and i'm still seing the same problem.
Alex