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Configure Hyper‑V. Hopefully you already know that Hyper‑V is

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Microsoft's server virtualization platform.

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There was a desktop virtualization product called Connectix Virtual PC, and

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at the time, this was in the infancy of virtualization.

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The possibilities were endless.

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Instead of standing up servers or even client machines on bare metal,

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which was all we had back in the 90s, the promise of

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virtualization is that you can converge your hardware and then

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maintain your servers as virtual machines.

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While Microsoft purchased Connectix,

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they did a lot of interesting engineering, by the way,

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I wish we had time and scope to talk about it more,

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but we've got Hyper‑V, and this is Microsoft's Hypervisor. It's

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actually what's used in the Microsoft Azure data centers.

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Although I understand the Hyper‑V that's running in the data centers is

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very specialized compared to what we customers get.

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Hyper‑V is available in Windows Server,

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certainly Windows Server 2022, but we also have a Desktop

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version of Hyper‑V that runs on Windows Client.

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This would be Windows 10, Windows 11. Note that you have to have

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a license for Pro, Enterprise, or the Education SKUs to be able

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to install Desktop Hyper‑V. The Desktop Hyper‑V would be a

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direct competitor to, say,

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VMware Workstation, and Hyper‑V would be a direct competitor with, say,

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VMware ESXi. When you install the Hyper‑V server role on Windows Server

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2022, you choose what components you want.

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There are four main components to the service.

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There's the Hyper‑V Manager Remote Server

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Administration Tools graphical console,

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there's the Hyper‑V Windows PowerShell module, VMConnect, that's the

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graphical RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol client,

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and then we have Windows PowerShell Direct.

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You'll learn more about all this stuff as we go on. Hopefully you already know, but if you don't, I got you.