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Install and Configure Hyper-V on Windows Server

Install and Configure Hyper-V on Windows Server

Installing and configuring Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 – Hyper-V is a hardware virtualization product developed by Microsoft. In fact, Hyper-V can create and run virtual machines, each virtual machine acts like a full computer. Hyper-V is a type 2 hypervisor that runs on the Windows operating system. A type 2 hypervisor runs inside the operating system of a physical host machine.

In this article, we will teach the following:

Training demo environment:

Operating system: Windows Server 2022 Datacenter
IP address: 192.168.3.10

Steps to install Hyper-V on Windows Server

1. Open the Add roles and features Wizard

Open the Server Manager dashboard and click on Add roles and features.

Click Next before starting.

2. Select the type of installation

Select role-based or feature-based installation and click Next.

3. Select the destination server

Select the host you want to add to the service and click Next.

4. Selection of server rules

Select the Hyper-V box from the Server Roles page as shown below.

A new window will appear as soon as you select Hyper-V. Click on Add Features.

Click Next to continue.

5. Selection of features

In the Select features console, just click Next because we don’t need any additional features right now.

6. Configure Hyper-V

In the Hyper-V console, you can read brief information about the Hyper-V server. Click Next to continue.

In Virtual switches, select a network adapter for the virtual switch and click Next.

The next section is about migration for virtual machines, in this tutorial keep it as default and click Next.

Specify the default location for the virtual hard disk files and virtual machine configuration files and click Next.

7. Confirm installation selections

Confirm the installation selections and click Install to begin the installation process.

After the installation is complete, click Close and restart the server.

Virtual machine configuration steps in Hyper V

1. Open Hyper-V Manager

Open Server Manager, click Tools, and select Hyper-V Manager.

2. Run the new virtual machine wizard

Right click on Hostname and select New and click Virtual Machine.

Click Next before starting.

3. Specifying the name and location

Select the name of the virtual machine and click Next.

4. Specifying the generation

Generation: Generation1

Then click Next.

5. RAM memory allocation

Allocate memory for the virtual machine and click Next.

Memory: 4096

6. Network configuration

Select Virtual Switch to use the virtual machine network and click Next.

7. Connecting the virtual hard disk

Configure the virtual hard disk for the new virtual machine and click Next.

8. Configure installation options

Select Installation Options and click Next.

Installation Options: Install the operating system later

Click Finish to create the virtual machine and close the wizard.

The virtual machine is created. To connect the Virtual Machine, right-click on the Virtual Machine and click Connect.

Select Start to start the virtual machine.

In this article, we learned how to install and configure Hyper-v on Windows Server For more information, you can read the contents of the virtualizer category of the blog.

 

 

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