Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server
As the stand-alone Hyper-V Server is now available, I would like to demonstrate what the process is for installing Hyper-V Server on a physical computer. The requirements for Hyper-V Server are that your computer be a x64 computer with hardware virtualization support. Once you have downloaded the installation ISO and burned it to a DVD disk, you can boot off of it. Then:
- You will be asked to specify your language and locale:
- Then you can start the installation and accept the EULA (after reading it thoroughly):
- Next you specify the installation type and the location for Hyper-V Server on the disk:
- Once this is done, installation will progress by itself:
- After the installation is complete you can login as "Administrator" (with no password) and specify the new Administrator password:
- Once you have done this you can login as Administrator. At this point in time Hyper-V is now installed and enabled. The only thing left to do is to configure things like the IP address, domain membership, etc... Thankfully Hyper-V Server comes with a handy utility to allow you to configure all of these types of settings in a quick and easy manner. This utility is opened automatically when you first login:
- After completing the configuration of the server using this UI - Hyper-V is ready to go.
As you can see the installation process is actually quite fast and simple. Once this is all done you need to setup the Hyper-V management UI on a remote computer in order to administrate the system.
Cheers,
Ben