To begin virtualizing with Hyper-V Server, the first thing we need to do is install and configure the Hyper-V Server feature. In this recipe we will configure the physical drives used by Hyper-V. The steps in this recipe can be used to configure the Server 2012 Standard and Datacenter editions, as well as the free Hyper-V Server edition.
In this recipe we will set up and configure Hyper-V on our first server named HV01
. The operating system should already be installed on the C:\
drive and configured with a network address. A separate disk, E:\
, will be used to hold our VM
and VHDx
files.
To simplify management of the Hyper-V Server, the system is joined to a domain: