Now that I have had a chance to get the rig built from Part I and things installed, let me take Part II and step it out.
One thing to note on this build. I chose to go with a Full Standard installation of Windows Server 2008 R2. I could have gone with a Core installation, but decided I wanted the GUI. I will have a Core install in a VM as time permits.
First thing to do is once you have Windows Server 2008 installed, we need to Add a Role from the Initial Configuration Tools screen.
When you select this option, the New Role Wizard is launched, which makes this pretty easy.
Click Next.
Select Hyper-V. You can select other Roles as well, but be careful so that you don’t overload your system. Remember, you will be loading this thing up with many concurrent VMs running and need to ensure resources for those.
Here you can get some additional information on Hyper-V, but really, who takes the time to read through this stuff.
Now, we need to select a network adapter that Hyper-V will use to virtualize in the VMs. My machine only has one, so this makes it a no-brainer.
You get a little information screen saying you might need to reboot after install. Blah, Blah, Blah.
Well, sure enough……I need to reboot.
After the reboot, the Hyper-V Role installation continues
Congratulations! Hyper-V is installed. You get a little note saying how to add VMs.
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