Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Real World Solutions

Here are a few problems and solutions that you might encounter when installing a new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

Challenge

You have been asked to install a few Hyper-V hosts, but your deployment tool of choice is not yet ready? And of course the idea is to have all hosts configured identically.

Solution

This solution is going to use a PowerShell script and a XML file containing all required information. The script will take care on the install the required roles and features as well as configure the Hyper-V role. The script of course would have to get tuned and adopted to work in your environment. Please note there is no error handling or logging added.

The XML file could look like the following:

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”utf-8”?> ...