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How to manage Hyper-V from Windows XP?
If you still use Windows XP as a primary operating system, but your tasks include administrating Hyper-V environments, now you have a option to do it quite easy. Until now, you could use remote desktop, and it still works very well, but what if you want to use something like Hyper-V Remote Management Update for Windows Vista or Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7?
In that case everyone can try Hyper-V management console; a small tool that can be installed on Windows XP, Windows 2003, 2008, Vista or Windows 7. Tool is rather easy to set up, you just need to enter names of your Hyper-V servers and that’s it. After that, from Windows XP you have :
- Ability to monitor multiple Hyper-V servers
- Ability to monitor all virtual machines
- Ability to change state of virtual machines
- Ability to delete, rename virtual machines
- Ability to create, delete & apply snapshots
- Ability to RDP to virtual machines
- Ability to Import/Export virtual machines
- Audit user activity
- Display of virtual machines in List or Tree Views
- Control of user rights to high degree of granularity
Where can I download the tool and how to install it?
- Download the tool from here. Run HyperVConsoleSetup.msi.
- Choose administrative install. After that click only Next couple of times and then Finish.
- Run Hyper-V Management Console shortcut in your Start Menu.
- After opening tool just right-click on Hyper-V Managers then click on Connect to server and enter name of your Hyper-V server.
Note that Hyper-V Management Console is not free; it’s price starts at $49.99 for a single user.
Original post: V-irtualization.com
By Ilija Brajkovic | January 19, 2010
Tags: hyper-v, hyper-v server, tools, virtualization
Category: hyper-v | Comments
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