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7 Dell EMC SC Series: Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices | CML1009
Install the Hyper-V role with the Add Roles and Features Wizard
Initially offered with Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V has matured with each release to include many new
features and enhancements. It has evolved to become a mature, robust, proven virtualization platform. In
simplest terms, it is a layer of software that presents physical host server hardware resources in an optimized
and virtualized manner to guest virtual machines (VMs) and their workloads. Hyper-V hosts (referred to as
nodes when clustered) greatly enhance utilization of physical hardware (such as processors, memory, NICs,
and power) by allowing many VMs to share these resources at the same time.
Hyper-V Manager and related management tools such as Failover Cluster Manager, Microsoft System Center
Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Windows Admin Center (WAC), and PowerShell, offer administrators
great control and flexibility for managing host and VM resources.
For more information about Hyper-V features that are not specific to storage, see the
Microsoft Virtualization
Documentation library.
1.3 Supported versions
SC Series storage has supported Hyper-V since the release of Windows Server 2008. Depending on your
version of SCOS, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and newer is supported. With the release of SCOS 7.4,
support for Hyper-V with SC Series is extended to Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V.
Note: Not all versions of Windows Server Hyper-V are supported with all SCOS versions. Consult your SCOS
documentation to confirm version support.
Note: Microsoft has announced that extended support for Windows Server 2008 R2 will end in January 2020.
Customers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V should plan to migrate to a newer version before
Microsoft extended support ends.