When you configure a replication group for a Hyper-V destination, identify source VMs, and then provide Hyper-V specific values for replication to the destination site.
You can replicate to Hyper-V from streaming backups or backup copies from Hyper-V.
Production Site and Recovery Site Hypervisor Vendors
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Production site hypervisor vendor: The production site hypervisor vendor is Microsoft Hyper-V, and this value is prefilled and cannot be edited.
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Recovery site hypervisor vendor: Select the vendor for recovery site hypervisor.
General
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Replication group name: Enter a descriptive name for the replication group, or change the name.
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Production site hypervisor: The destination hypervisor for the source VMs. You cannot edit this value.
Content
You must add virtual machines that you want to replicate and failover during disaster.
- Add: Click Add, and then select the virtual machines from the VM group that you want to include in the replication group. You can automatically update and sync when VMs are added or removed from the VM group.
Storage
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Copy for replication: Select the storage copy for replication.
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Select MediaAgent: Select a MediaAgent for index browse and VM recovery.
Target Options
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Target: Select a previously defined recovery target.
To create a new recovery target, click the Add button
.When you edit an existing replication group, you cannot change this value.
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Access Node: Select a VSA access node (previously called a proxy) that can be used to perform the replication operation.
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Recovery time objective (RTO)
- Warm site replication: Select this option to create a destination VM only during a failover.
Override Options (Optional)
To change the destination settings for specific VMs, in the row for the VM , click the Actions button 
, and then select Override replication options.
You can only change options for one VM at a time.
On the Override replication options dialog box, you can enter the following information:
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VM display name: Enter the display name for the destination VM.
You can only change this value when adding a new VM or if the replication group is a warm site.
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Restore location: Select the restore location on the destionation VM.
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Destination folder: To replicate to a folder, click Browse and select the destination folder.
You can change this value only when adding a new VM or if a replication group is a warm site.
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Register virtual machine with failover cluster: Select this option to register replicated virtual machines to the failover cluster for the destination client.
Virtual machines in a failover cluster can migrate to another Hyper-V server.
To register virtual machines with the failover cluster, the user account for the virtualization client must be part of the Hyper-V Administrators group.
For a Hyper-V cluster, the user account must have full Cluster Permissions (Read and Full Control).
- Network adaptor: Select a network interface.
Advanced options (Optional)
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Validate destination VM (Power ON and OFF): To verify that the destination VM is bootable by powering it on and then powering off, enable this toggle key. Changes resulting from the power on are not preserved. If guest tools are not installed on the source VM, validation is skipped even when this option is selected.
If validation fails, the destination virtual machine reverts back to its last valid (bootable) state.
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Unconditionally overwrite if VM already exists: To make the first replication operation replace an existing virtual machine with the same name in the target location, even if the destination VM is running, enable this toggle key.
Replication operations for incremental changes are not affected by this setting. Incremental replication changes are applied to the destination VM without overwriting the VM. If the destination VM is currently running, the replication fails.
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Continue to next priority on failure: When a VM cannot be included in the replication operation and you want to continue to next priority upon failure, enable this toggle key.
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Failover delay between different priority machines (in mins): Specify how long the replication operation should wait between processing VMs that are assigned different priorities. This setting can be used to enable higher priority machines to start before processing the next set of machines.
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Disk Provisioning: Select the disk provisioning type for the destination VM: Auto, Dynamic, or Fixed.
When configuring a domain controller VM for replication, select Fixed.
When you edit an existing replication group, you cannot change this value.
Summary
The Summary tab displays the settings that you configured on each tab for this replication group.