David Dan

Managing Hyper-V via MMC

Managing Hyper-V via MMC Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V can be managed via Microsoft Management Console (MMC) similar to other roles in Windows Server 2008. Select the "Hyper-V Manager " from the Administrative Tools folder on the Start menu to start the virtualization MMC console. With this console, you can manage either the local system or connect to other Hyper-V host systems and manage them.

Enabling Hyper-V in a Server Core deployment

Type “start /w ocsetup Microsoft-Hyper-V” to enable Hyper-V role. Restart when prompted. Note: To Manage Hyper-V, you can remotely connect to the server from an existing Hyper-V Manager MMC on a different system.