Networking All-in-One For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 1

Hyper-V

IN THIS CHAPTER

Introducing Hyper-V

Working with Hyper-V Manager

Creating a virtual network to support your virtual machines

Creating virtual machines in Hyper-V

Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that comes as a standard part of all versions of Windows Server since version 2008 and all versions of desktop Windows since Windows 8.

On server versions of Windows, Hyper-V provides an enterprise-grade true Type-1 hypervisor that can manage huge virtualization farms with thousands of virtual machines. The version of Hyper-V that comes with desktop Windows is called Client Hyper-V. Client Hyper-V uses the same Type-1 hypervisor as the server-grade Hyper-V. However, it doesn’t have the same enterprise-level management capabilities, because it’s intended for use on client computers, not for production servers.

In this chapter, I first explain some of the details of how Hyper-V works. Then I show you how to set up virtual machines using the client version of Hyper-V. That way, you can build your own virtual machines to experiment with Hyper-V without the need for expensive ...