Get BPA error “Servers in Failover Clusters Must Have a Hyper-V Replica Broker Configured”

failoverclusterhyper-vwindows-server-2012-r2

I configured a Hyper-V Failover Cluster with two nodes and one domain controller. Cluster-Aware Updating is enabled.

The BPA shows the following error:

To Participate in Replication, Servers in Failover Clusters Must Have a Hyper-V Replica Broker Configured.
Source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12798.hyper-v-to-participate-in-replication-servers-in-failover-clusters-must-have-a-hyper-v-replica-broker-configured.aspx

I don't understand why BPA is showing that error. I don't use and have not configured replication.

VMName                     ReplicationState
------                     ----------------
xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx                 Disabled
xxxxxxxx                           Disabled
xxxxxx                             Disabled
xxxxxxxx                           Disabled
xxxxxxxxxx                         Disabled
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx                     Disabled
xxxxxxxxxxx                        Disabled
xxxx-xx                            Disabled
xxxx-xxx                           Disabled
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx            Disabled
xxxxxxxxxx                         Disabled
xxxxxxxxx                          Disabled
xxxxxxxxxx                         Disabled

What's wrong and how do I fix it?

Best Answer

I'm not sure why that is considered an error rather than informational but the gist of it is, if you plan to use Hyper-V Replica then you need to configure a Hyper-V Replica Broker. If you don't plan on using Hyper-V Replica then you can ignore that error or exclude it from the BPA results so that you don't see it again. If you're not using Hyper-V Replica then this error has no impact on the operation of Hyper-V or the Failover Cluster.

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