Configure Hyper‑V. Hopefully you already know that Hyper‑V is
Microsoft's server virtualization platform.
There was a desktop virtualization product called Connectix Virtual PC, and
at the time, this was in the infancy of virtualization.
The possibilities were endless.
Instead of standing up servers or even client machines on bare metal,
which was all we had back in the 90s, the promise of
virtualization is that you can converge your hardware and then
maintain your servers as virtual machines.
While Microsoft purchased Connectix,
they did a lot of interesting engineering, by the way,
I wish we had time and scope to talk about it more,
but we've got Hyper‑V, and this is Microsoft's Hypervisor. It's
actually what's used in the Microsoft Azure data centers.
Although I understand the Hyper‑V that's running in the data centers is
very specialized compared to what we customers get.
Hyper‑V is available in Windows Server,
certainly Windows Server 2022, but we also have a Desktop
version of Hyper‑V that runs on Windows Client.
This would be Windows 10, Windows 11. Note that you have to have
a license for Pro, Enterprise, or the Education SKUs to be able
to install Desktop Hyper‑V. The Desktop Hyper‑V would be a
direct competitor to, say,
VMware Workstation, and Hyper‑V would be a direct competitor with, say,
VMware ESXi. When you install the Hyper‑V server role on Windows Server
2022, you choose what components you want.
There are four main components to the service.
There's the Hyper‑V Manager Remote Server
Administration Tools graphical console,
there's the Hyper‑V Windows PowerShell module, VMConnect, that's the
graphical RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol client,
and then we have Windows PowerShell Direct.
You'll learn more about all this stuff as we go on. Hopefully you already know, but if you don't, I got you.