Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 end to end deployment – Configure Network Settings and Remote Management

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 end to end deployment

In this final post we’ll cover the Configuration of Network Settings and setup of Remote Management for a Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server which will be managed from a Windows 10 Enterprise PC. There are quite a few steps to go through for this part of the configuration of the Hyper-V deployment however a number of these steps can be applied to… Read more



Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 end to end deployment – Install Hyper-V Server

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 end to end deployment

In this post I’ll be going through the installation of Hyper-V Server on our Dell T430 hosts. Remember you can download and use Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 for free (link) however you must still license the guest Operating Systems. I’ll be configuring a 80GB partition for the OS with the remainder of the storage set aside for the virtual machines… Read more



Hyper-V Remote Management RPC Server unavailable. Unable to establish connection between Hyper-V Host and Client PC.

An interesting quirk of running Virtual Machines for this post… the background is my ‘main work PC’ is currently running Windows 7; in order to remotely manage a Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 machine I had installed Oracle VirtualBox onto my main PC and inside that had setup a Windows 8.1 VM to remotely manage the Hyper-V Server instance. However after setting up… Read more