Hyper-V Management Tools
Based on the assumption that your Hyper-V servers are all running Server Core, all
graphical management tools will be run remotely, typically from a Windows 10 client
operating system. There are three primary Hyper-V management environments.
Additionally, remember that some management functions aren’t specific to Hyper-V,
such as management via Server Manager. Windows Server 2012 and above have
remote management enabled by default, which means no configurations are required
to be able to manage a server instance remotely.
The first management environment is the built-in Hyper-V Manager. Typically, for a
client operating system to manage server operating systems remotely, Remote Server
Administration Tools must be installed. They are available from the following
location:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45520
This would include management tools such as Server Manager, but because Hyper-V
is built into Windows 10, the Hyper-V graphical management tool and the PowerShell
cmdlets are also built-in and just need to be enabled, as explained previously in the
Nano Server section.
The second environment is PowerShell, which contains a large number of cmdlets that
are specific to Hyper-V and are available by loading the Hyper-V PowerShell module:
Import-Module Hyper-V
The preceding command manually loads the Hyper-V module, which is always the
best practice. However, PowerShell version 3 and above features a module autoload
capability that automatically loads modules as needed if cmdlets are used from
modules not yet available.
The third environment is the SCVMM graphical tools (and strictly speaking, SCVMM
also has its own PowerShell module, making it a fourth environment). The SCVMM
graphical tools are covered in detail in Chapter 9, “Implementing the Private Cloud,
SCVMM, and Microsoft Azure Stack,” but they can easily be installed on a Windows
client:
1 . Launch the SCVMM setup routine.
2 . Click Install.
3 . On the Select Features To Install page, select the VMM Console check box, as
shown in Figure 5.11.
4 . Complete all of the other dialog boxes, which prompt you to accept the license
agreement and configure update settings, and finally, click Install.