Windows® Small Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion

Initial Configuration

After you’ve installed the Hyper-V Role, you need to actually configure Hyper-V and then start adding virtual machines. The management tool for Hyper-V is the Hyper-V Manager console. Like other management consoles in Windows Server 2008, it integrates into the Server Manager console. You can use it there or run it standalone. We prefer standalone, frankly. Open Administrative Tools and select Hyper-V Manager from the list to run the Hyper-V Manager console standalone.

Note

You could run the Hyper-V Manager console by starting it from the command line, but unlike other Windows Server 2008 management consoles, it’s not put in %windir%\system32. It is actually in %ProgramFiles%\Hyper-V, which isn’t on your path. The command line ...