Created Thursday 14 June 2012
You need Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 for remote management of Hyper-V Server.
Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate downloads and links
Windows 8 Release Preview-ISO-Images
There are serveral ways to manage Hyper-V Server 8 and guests remotely:
Of course there are other management-tools you can buy from Microsoft. But I am concentrating on the free ones.
Hyper-V Manager comes as a feature in Windows Server 2012.
To activate it, you can use powershell.
Server Manager brings some Windows PowerShell-Cmdlets for this.
get-module -Listavailable # shows available powershell modules, including servermanager.
get-module -Listavailable
# shows available powershell modules, including servermanager.
import-module servermanager # imports the servermanager module.
get-windowsfeature # returns a list of the command names for use with Add-WindowsFeature
Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-Hyper-V # activates Hyper-V Mananger - now integrated in the GUI.
If you want to use Windows 8 to get your hands on Hyper-V Manager, you have to download and install
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8.
There is a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. If your run Windows 8 32-bit version, you won't have the Hyper-V Role available on your computer, because Hyper-V is 64-bit only. But you can still manage
a Hyper-V server remotely.