Welcome to the ITFreeTraining video looking at Hyper-V Management. This video will look
at how to use the Hyper-V management tool on the server and client operating systems.
I will now change to my computer running Windows Server 2012 R2 to have a look at the process.
This server has the Hyper-V role installed and configured. To manage the role, open Server
manager. Once Server Manager is open, the next step is to select Hyper-V Manager from
the Tools pull down menu.
Since Hyper-V is installed on the local server, this server will automatically be added to
Hyper-V Manager. At the top of Hyper-V Manager you can see the virtual machines that are
running. Currently there is only one virtual machine that has been installed on this sever.
The middle section shows the checkpoints that have been created on that virtual machine.
In other virtualization solutions these may be referred to as snapshots. When a checkpoint
is created on a virtual machine, the state of the virtual machine is saved. This includes
memory and hard drive contents. Essentially a checkpoint is saving a moment in time of
that virtual machine. Once saved, the administrator is able to restore the virtual machine to
that checkpoint, essentially restoring the state of the virtual machine to that previous state.
The bottom section of Hyper-V Management shows additional details about the currently selected
virtual machine. This shows general information about the virtual machine as well as information
about the memory, networking and replication information.
On the right hand side are options to configure the Hyper-V server as well as options to configure
the currently selected virtual machine.
You can see that if you are using Windows Server, it is fairly easy to configure Hyper-V.
In a lot of cases, an administrator will administer a server running Hyper-V from a Windows client.
To see how to do this, I will change to my Windows 8.1 computer.
This Windows 8.1 client has RSat installed. RSat provides the tools to perform server
administration; however, notice that if I run Server Manager and then select the tools
menu, there is no option for Hyper-V. The Hyper-V management tool is not included in RSat.
To install the Hyper-V Management tool, I will right click on the start menu and then
select the option for control panel. From control panel, I will then select the option
for Programs. Under “Programs and Feature” I will next select the option “Turn Windows
features on or off”.
This will show all the features in Windows 8.1 that have been installed. To install the
Hyper-V Management tool, all I need to do is expand Hyper-V and then tick the option
“Hyper-V Management Tools”. Once ticked, I will press o.k. and the Hyper-V Management
tool will be installed on the local computer.
Once the install is complete, I will close all these Windows and go back to the desktop.
If I were to open Server Manager again, the Hyper-V Management Tool will now be available.
This set up does require RSat to be installed. If you only want the Hyper-V management tool,
you can also access it by right clicking on the start menu, selecting search and entering
in Hyper as the search term. I can then select Hyper-V Manager and run it.
The Hyper-V role is not installed on this computer so no Hyper-V servers will be shown.
To add one, right click Hyper-V Manager, select the option “Connect to Server”, and then
enter the server name. Hopefully it will connect pretty quickly, but in this case it took just
under a minute to connect to the server. Once connected, you will be able to administer
the server just like if you were logged into the console of the server.
In this example the work station and the server are both in the same domain. The user logged
into the computer is a domain administrator and thus has the required rights to access
the server. However, in some cases this may not be the case and some extra configuration
is required.
Lucky for us, Microsoft has created a script that makes the process of configuring a server
and the client for remote administration very easy when the server is not in the same domain
as the client. You will require this additional setup when the Hyper-V server is in a workgroup
or the Hyper-V Server is a in a different domain that is not trusted.
The script is available for download from the following location. On the server side,
you need to configure which user you want to allow access via remote administration.
To add a domain user, use the first example. To add a local user, use the second option.
On the client side, you need to run the one command. This will enable anonymous DCOM access
to the client. If the Hyper-V server is in a trusted domain, you will not need to run
this command.
Thanks for watching this video from ITFreeTraining. I hope to see you in the other videos from
us on Hyper-V and other free courses that we offer. Until then, thanks for watching
and see you next time.