Installing Hyper-V Server Role in 7 Easy Steps
For those of you who want to try out Hyper-V on your Server 2008 I have prepared a detailed step-by-step guide for quick and easy Hyper-V Server Role installation.
It will take you less than 7 minutes and only 7 easy steps.
And in case you haven’t seen my previous Hyper-V article, check out my 7 Awesome Things You Can Do With Hyper-V.
How to Install Hyper-V on Server 2008
To begin, make sure you are logged in to your Windows Server 2008 machine and your Server Manager is open.
1. Click on Roles and then on Add Roles option in the right column.
2. In the Before You Begin window you can check a box next to Skip this page by default. This is only an informational page and after reading it once you will probably never want to read it again. So to skip it you can check the box here and when ready, click Next.
3. In this step you need to select the role you want to install, which is Hyper-V, then click Next.
4. Read through the information about Hyper-V and when ready, click Next.
5. Our physical machine has two network controllers. What we’re going to do now is select which one is going to be utilized by Hyper-V for our network connectivity.
In my example I’m going to select the first local area connection and then click Next. You should select whatever works best for your network.
6. Make sure all your choices are correct and when ready, click Install.
7. Once the installation is completed you will see your Installation Results page. Go ahead and click Close — your Hyper-V installation has been successful!
Next Time
In my next article I’ll walk you through creating a new virtual machine in Hyper-V — don’t miss it!
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Windows Server HQ by Train Signal.com » How to Create a New Virtual Machine with Hyper-V Says:
July 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
[...] week I did an installation walk-through to show you just how easy installing Hyper-V on your Server 2008 really is. Today we’ll go a step further and create our very first virtual [...]
Dustin Mobley Says:
December 6th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I thought its about time to give Hyper V a try. I was trying to use ESXi 4, but I’m unable to get vsphere to work with win7, so I think I will try Hyper V. Quick question. Does it have a management interface like ESi like “Virtual Infrastructure client” or Vsphere? so that I can manage it from say my desktop and not always having to login to the server 2008 machine?
Dustin Mobley Says:
December 13th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Okay. I noticed the following after installing Hyper-V role in my Network Connections.
I now have a Virtual Network and its labled Local Area Connection 3. That I understand.
However, my normal Local area connection no longer says Enabled, but it is not “Connected”, and it looks as the Virtual Network is the one that is connected and is running everything. Is that normal?
This is just a test server and only has 1 Nic