How to Configure Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Host

Now, Windows Server 2012 is the current version of Windows Server, you can decide your next virtualization host of Microsoft who want to run the latest version of hyper-v article covers may be familiar territory for a single host configuration of Windows Server virtualization 2008 Hyper-v Manager Basic. There are several new features available in Windows Server 2012 HYPER-V, are the most interesting:

Hyper-v virtual machine (VM), the Vm replication disaster recovery (DR) new mechanisms.
Virtual SAN Manager and be able to deploy a virtual machine virtual Fibre Channel adapter.
The new virtual hard disk (VHD) format. "vhdx" in the Vhd for hyper-v in Windows Server 2008 provides excellent performance, reliability and capacity.
It is not in the group, there is no shared storage between the ability of the host to transfer virtual machines in real time.

When you install Windows Server 2012, and if you install this release of Windows Server 2012 media or volume license version doesn't matter. Retail version of Windows Server 2012 program requires the product key. Volume licensing Edition does not need a product key during the installation process.

For an operating system by default, with no graphical interface install Windows Server 2012. You may want to install the Windows Server hyper-v 2012 using the graphical user interface, it means you understand and evaluate features of the server when using the server console screen its first host. In the mode of production scale, or you may prefer the operating system kernel, and reduce the surface footprint and updated hosts attacks.

Before installing the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2012:

After a default installation of Windows Server 2012 data center server hardware, there are some things to prepare for Windows domain members and virtualization host server:

Enable remote desktop is disabled by default. It will make your desktop work remotely via the Internet and the host.
Assuming the host has more than one network adapter (NIC), select the network card is the main "host" NIC and which will be reserved for use by guests.
Visitors to disable NetBIOS on the NIC and disable IPv4 DNS client name registration in the network settings.
Network connection, NIC host as primary set in the advanced settings and disable the guest network card bound Microsoft network file and printer sharing and the client

From the Windows-X menu (in the lower left corner of your remote desktop window double right click) run disk management. Initialize any disks, any volume, any partition you create format and created the first VM Vhd any folder will reside.

Steps to install and configure Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2012:

Please follow these steps to install Windows Server 2012 on a physical server hyper-v hosts:

1. from the Windows Server 2012 server administrator Panel, click Add roles and features.

2. Select hyper-v role. Please consider installing Windows Server backup features at the same time. Create network switches page, select a guest virtual machine NIC for network communication.


3. the new 2012 with Windows Server hyper-v, you can specify for real-time transfer of NIC host is not part of the Windows failover clustering and have shared storage. See figure a, you can use Kerberos with constrained delegation authentication CredSSP Protocol real-time transfer outside the cluster. The default value for this setting is not configured.

No clusters and no shared storage configuration for live migration. (Click to see larger version.)

4. Select the configuration file and VM virtual hard disk from the default location, and then continue to install roles and features.

Remember the row of Windows Server 2012 in exporter template deployment configuration, so if you want to configure a different hyper-v Windows Server 2012 have the same hardware configuration, click Export configuration settings you want to save the file to DeploymentConfigTemplate.xml. Using PowerShell and can automate repetitive, identical objects on other computers that use the Windows Server 2012 settings file. 5. After installing the hyper-v virtualization host server will require a reboot for driver download. The hyper-v role in changing the health status of the server key Manager until the server is restarted.

6. after the computer is restarted, and administrators from the server running hyper-v Best Practices Analyzer quickly checks your hyper-v configuration.

7. you can c the GUI Starter screen. opens as shown in the figure for the hyper-v Manager Microsoft Management Console Windows 2008 Hyper-v is the same user interface, several new options, run HYPER-V.

8. do you want to do something that in hyper-v virtual switch Manager console open, check the properties of the virtual switch, and then clear the allow management operating system to share this network adapter. This will give guests exclusive access to Vm virtual NIC in the exchanger is reserved for their use.

9 elements of the new features in Windows Server 2012 hyper-v creates a virtual fibre channel SAN in Figure d. provision of capacity each guest VM, Windows Server 2012, including new hardware options have been added to the fibre channel Enjoy got the players, you can in a site whose name the distribution in the world and select virtual San, you must connect to the virtual fibre channel adapter Enjoy got the players.