Hyper‐V Installation, and Configuration
In this guide we will run through the installation, and basic configuration of windows Hyper-V on server 2019
Starting with the server manager for windows server, we need to go to the top right, select manage, and select "Roles and Features"
Next click through the defaults of the first three windows in the Wizard, once on the fourth, scroll through the list of windows features to "Hyper-V" check this box.
Then click next, and then Install, and wait for the software components to install.
Once this is done reboot, and Hyper-V will be installed.
Now to access the Hyper-V control window, go to the server manager, then select Hyper-V, right click the server in question, adn select "Hyper-V Manager"
Now we have access to the Hyper-V panel
To create a new network, from the Hyper-V Panel, select "Virtual Switch Manager"
Now pick what the type of network, in my case, I created a "Local" network, for VM's on this system. To do this pick "internal", of we where creating a virtual switch to connect with the same network as the host, we would pick "external".
Once the network is named, we can apply the change, and now this network can be provisioned to VM's from their hardware settings.
To create a new virtual machine, starting from the Hyper-V panel, we will select "New" > "Virtual Machine"
This wizard is very straightforward, just one note, of we are importing a VM from another place, we do this by using an existing Virtual hard Disk file, instead of a new one in the "Connect Virtual Hard Disk" section.
WAC or Windows Admin Console, is a web based windows management tool, for making changes as if you where connected to the systems server manager tool
To install download the .msi files from https://aka.ms/WACDownload and run the installer, with its defaults.
Now the web gui can be accessed via hostname, or IP from Chrome Browser as Firefox causes it to hang, and IE reports incompatibility.
For installation of the firewall, refer to the software installation from the VSphere section of this wiki. To add multiple networks to a VM, simply right click the VM, and select Settings > Add Device > Network and select the desired network.