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By default, a certificate revocation check is mandatory and Self-Signed Certificates don’t support Revocation checks. To work around it, modify the following registry key on Primary, Replica Servers

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization\Replication" /v DisableCertRevocationCheck /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f

Hyper-V Replica using Certificates from an Enterprise CA – can be used for Member Servers

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2012/07/10/requesting-hyper-v-replica-certificates-from-an-enterprise-ca/

Running these two commands are fixing the issues,

request system configuration rescue save

request system autorecovery state save

root@com-srx220> show system alarms
2 alarms currently active
Alarm time Class Description
2018-03-13 06:08:56 UTC Minor Autorecovery information needs to be saved
2018-03-13 06:08:56 UTC Minor Rescue configuration is not set

root@com-srx220> request system configuration rescue save

root@com-srx220> show system alarms
1 alarms currently active
Alarm time Class Description
2018-03-13 06:08:56 UTC Minor Autorecovery information needs to be saved

root@com-srx220> show system autorecovery state
Configuration:
File Recovery Information Integrity Check Action / Status
rescue.conf.gz Saved Passed None
BSD Labels:
Slice Recovery Information Integrity Check Action / Status
s1 Saved Passed None
s2 Saved Passed None
s3 Saved Passed None
s4 Saved Passed None

root@com-srx220> request system autorecovery state save
Saving config recovery information
Saving license recovery information
Saving BSD label recovery information

I downloaded the Windows Server 2016 ISO Evaluation version from Microsoft, installed and setup the VM. When try to activate using SPLA key, getting the error – The edition cannot be upgraded.

Fix:

Run the command prompt as Administrator

C:\>Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PQRST-UVWXY

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.14393.0

Image Version: 10.0.14393.0

Starting to update components…
Starting to install product key…
Finished installing product key.

Removing package Microsoft-Windows-ServerStandardEvalEdition~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.14393.0
[==========================100.0%==========================]
Finished updating components.

Starting to apply edition-specific settings…
Restart Windows to complete this operation.
Do you want to restart the computer now? (Y/N)

Restart the server, Job done. but not… 

When I check the Activation status – Windows is not activated.

Click –> Activate Windows –> Troubleshoot, it will fix the problem and make you happy!

More details about the activation: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2016/10/19/windows-server-2016-volume-activation-tips/