Hyper-V Replication Operation Failed Event ID 33680 32086 32022

Question

Dear all, I did a few things in the Server-VM, increasing the size of the Hard Drive, increased the number of processors, upgraded the SQL server in that VM, and I totally forgot about the replica server. Now, 3 months later, I'm trying to enable the replication back and get the following errors:

Even ID 33680: Replication operation for virtual machine 'ServerXXX01' failed. (Virtual machine ID 2ABB5402-74B1-4AE2-B7E6-E0B89057A81E) (Primary server: 'ServerName', Replica server: 'Server Name') Event ID 32086: Hyper-V suspended replication for virtual machine 'ServerXXX01' due to a non-recoverable failure. Resume replication after correcting the failure. (Virtual machine ID 2ABB5402-74B1-4AE2-B7E6-E0B89057A81E) Event ID 32022: Hyper-V could not replicate changes for virtual machine 'ServerXXX01': The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002). (Virtual machine ID 2ABB5402-74B1-4AE2-B7E6-E0B89057A81E) Is there any workaround to fix this issue, other than deleting and re-creating the replica? Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Hello, The system complains that there is a VM file missing. I would recommend to check:

• Check if the VM configuration is supported for replication: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/deploy/upgrade-virtual-machine-version-in-hyper-v-on-windows-or-windows-server#supported-vm-configuration-versions-for-semi-annual-channel-hosts
• Check the replica folder in the Replica Host.
• Also check that there is no snapshots to the VM as they could be problematic for replication. --If the reply is helpful, please Upvote and Accept as answer--