Managing Storage Replica

Storage Replica (SR) is a feature of Windows Server 2022 that replicates storage volumes to other systems. SR is only available with the Windows Server 2022 Datacenter edition.

You typically use Storage Replica to maintain a complete replica of one or more disk volumes, typically for disaster recovery. SR works on a volume basis. Once you configure SR and create a replication partnership, SR replicates all the files in a volume, for example, the F: Drive, to a disk on another host, for instance, SRV2. After setting up the SR partnership, as you update the F: drive, Windows automatically updates the target drive on SRV2. However, you cannot see the files on SRV2. An SR partnership also requires a drive on the source and destination hosts for internal logging.

Getting ready

You use both SRV1 and SRV2 in this recipe. After adding and configuring additional virtual disks to this host, you run this recipe on SRV1, a domain-joined host in the Reskit.Org domain. You...