Configuring Hyper-V Replica between two hyper-V hosts using HTTP authentication

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a very important component for every IT system. Good DR infrastructure normally involves datacenters, servers, storage, network bandwidth, and other expensive solutions. All these factors can make a DR plan more complicated for small- and medium-sized companies. The high cost and complexity would make it very difficult to accomplish.

Hyper- V on Windows Server 2012 comes with a new feature, called Hyper-V Replica to solve this problem. It is a feature that allows the virtual machines to be replicated to another server, such as a remote disaster recovery site server, using a single network connection.

The Hyper-V Replica components consist of a primary server that hosts all the virtual machines running in production, and a replica server that hosts replicas of each virtual machines on the primary server. It allows the administrators to automatically replicate the virtual machines...