Features
- Available without charge in all windows servers and some client versions like win10)
- Encryption support for generation 1 virtual mechine (new)
- Generation 2 VM support
- Host resource protection (new)
- Hot add and remove memory/network adapters etc
- More memory and processor
- Nested virtual machine
- Production checkpoints
- Shared virtual hard disks
- Shielded virtual machines
- Nested Virtual Machine
Requirement
- 64bit processor with SLAT (Second Level Address Translation)
- Virtualization supporting processors (IntelVT or AMD-V)
- At least 4GB of RAM
- Virtualization support ON in Bios
- Hardware enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP) must be available and enabled
- VM Monitor mode Extension
- Better to have Two NIC
How to confirm the requirements
execute “systeminfo.exe” in powershel
INSTALLATION
- go to Control Panel >
- Programs and Features >
- Turn Windows Features on or off >
- Select HyperV (Make sure all options in HyperV management Tools and Hyper-V platform is selected)
- Click OK ( It will take few mins to complete the installation)
- Once installation completed. It will ask for system reboot. Do reboot.
- Installation is done here. We can access Hyper-V once the server is online.