Enabling WinRM for connection to Hyper-V servers

If you cannot use TLS to enable encrypted network traffic between IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus Hyper-V servers, you must configure WinRM on the host to allow unencrypted network traffic. Ensure that you understand the security risks that are associated with allowing unencrypted network traffic.

Procedure

To configure WinRM for connection to Hyper-V hosts:

  1. On the Hyper-V host system, log in with an administrator account.
  2. Open a Windows command prompt. If User Account Control (UAC) is enabled, you must open the command prompt with elevated privileges by running with the Run as administrator option enabled.
  3. Enter the following command to configure WinRM to allow unencrypted network traffic: 
    winrm s winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}
  4. Verify that the AllowUnencrypted option is set to true through the following command: 
    winrm g winrm/config/service