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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:

  1. You will be asked to specify your language and locale:
    HyperVServerInstall2 HyperVServerInstall3
  2. Then you can start the installation and accept the EULA (after reading it thoroughly):
    HyperVServerInstall4 HyperVServerInstall5
  3. Next you specify the installation type and the location for Hyper-V Server on the disk:
    HyperVServerInstall6 HyperVServerInstall7
  4. Once this is done, installation will progress by itself:
    HyperVServerInstall8 HyperVServerInstall12
  5. After the installation is complete you can login as "Administrator" (with no password) and specify the new Administrator password:
    HyperVServerInstall13 HyperVServerInstall17
  6. 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:
    HyperVServerInstall20
  7. 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

Published Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:29 AM by Virtual PC Guy

Comments

# re: Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

Now comes the difficult part - configuring storage under Server Core ;)

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:56 AM by Lukas Beeler

# re: Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

What do you do after this. Hyper-V is inert.

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:11 PM by Edward Hasted

# re: Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

Great article, easy setup until... "Once this is all done you need to setup the Hyper-V management UI on a remote computer in order to administrate the system." I'm stuck here. I am unable to connect to it via the Hyper-V Manager from my workstation. I wonder what further permissions need to be configured to connect to the server?

Friday, October 10, 2008 6:14 PM by Jon Ueland

# re: Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

Now comes the difficult part - configuring storage under Server Core ;)

Monday, October 13, 2008 7:41 AM by Puslapiu kurimas

# Disk conficuration for a SQL app with heavy I/O

I am supposed to implement a heavy I/O Electronic Health Record software running non SQL 2005 next week. Would you please clarify the following:

Host having 3 SATA drives. Drive 1, Drive 2, and Drive 3

I install Virtual O/S on an IDE VHD located on Drive 1, then create a second SCSI VHD on Drive 2 and a 3rd SCSI VHD on Drive 3. Then run SQL DB on 2nd SCSI VHD and write the SQL LOG to the 3rd SCSI VHD. Would that give me any advantage in Database I/O speed?

Would it be O.K to have both Host O/S and Guest O/S on Drive 1?

Many thanks.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:09 AM by Jeff G.

# re: Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

Jeff G.

the comments section of one person's blog, even if it is Ben, is not the right place for that question..   Why don't you copy that question over to the Hyper-V forums <http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/threads/> where you will find a lot more rapid response and more than one expert..

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:22 PM by Chuck vdL

# re: Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

"Once this is all done you need to setup the Hyper-V management UI on a remote computer in order to administrate the system."

You also will need to do more:

http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/03/30/part-3-hyper-v-remote-management-you-do-not-have-the-requested-permission-to-complete-this-task-contact-the-administrator-of-the-authorization-policy-for-the-computer-computername.aspx

Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:49 AM by Stasys

# re: Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

Ben, great article....

I see a pre release of R2 is out.. What do you make of the improvements to Hyper-V?

Cheers

Daniel

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:13 AM by Daniel Anderson
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