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6 Do not select a network adapter.
The
Hyper-V Role Wizard recommends that a network adapter be chosen
at this step. However, the name of the virtual network created at this time
cannot be changed later and hence will not allow you to configure your
system as per Dell's best practices for Hyper-V. For more information, refer
to the
Dell Networking Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V at
www.dell.com/hyper-v .
7 Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the role installation.
A Hyper-V Manager MMC console may be used either locally or remotely to
manage the virtual environment on this system.
Managing Hyper-V
A Windows Server 2008 system with Hyper-V enabled can be managed either
locally or remotely using Hyper-V Manager console.
Hyper-V Manager Console
The Hyper-V Manager console provides basic management capabilities for a
Hyper-V environment. Capabilities include:
• Creating and managing virtual machines, virtual networks, and virtual
hard disks
• Export/Import of virtual machines
• Snapshot of virtual machines
NOTE: VM snapshots are not equivalent to backing up a virtual machine. The
snapshot capability available in the Hyper-V Manager is meant to take point-in-time
state of a virtual machine and is primarily meant for test and development scenarios
when a VM's state may need to be rolled back to a previous state.
A single Hyper-V Manager instance can connect to multiple Hyper-V hosts.
However, each host and the virtual machines on each host are managed
independent of the other hosts. For managing Hyper-V Cluster environments,
the Failover Cluster console is required.