Using ProHVM you can connect to and manage Hyper-V servers in other domains and workgroups using different credentials. It is very useful on installations of free Microsoft Hyper-V Server where you cannot run Microsoft Hyper-V manager locally. How to Open (or Install) Hyper-V Manager. 08 Jul 2015 by Luke Orellana 0. Accessing Hyper-V Manager can be quite a mystery if you’ve never launched it before or when you’re working in an unfamiliar environment. You don’t want to be stuck in the situation of frantically searching for Hyper-V Manager when a critical VM is down and needs.
To manage Hyper-V, you use the Hyper-V Manager, shown here. To start this program, click the Start button, type Hyper-V, and then choose Hyper-V Manager.
The Hyper-V Manager window is divided into five panes:
- Navigation: On the left side of the window is a navigation pane that lists the Hyper-V hosts, which Hyper-V calls virtualization servers. Here, just one host is listed: a Windows computer. In an enterprise environment where you have more than one host, each of the hosts will be listed in this pane.
- Virtual Machines: This pane lists the virtual machines that are defined for the selected host. In the figure, you can see several Hyper-V virtual machines — a couple of Linux machines, a Windows 10 machine, and a couple of Windows Server 2016 machines.
- Checkpoints: In Hyper-V, a checkpoint is a recovery point for a virtual machine. You can create a checkpoint when you’re going to make a modification to a virtual machine. Then, if something goes wrong, you can revert to the checkpoint.
- Virtual machine summary pane: Below the Checkpoints pane is a pane that provides summary information for the virtual machine selected in the Virtual Machines pane. You can see the summary information for one of the Windows Server 2016 machines. This pane has three tabs: Summary, Memory, and Networking. In the figure, the Memory tab is selected so you can see the memory that has been allocated to the machine.
- Actions: The Actions tab contains buttons you can click to initiate actions for the selected host (DOUG-2014-I7) and the selected machine (WIN2016).