Since we have gone through the planning and designing recommendations and best practices, we will now install our first Hyper-V server. In this section, I will show you various methods of installing Hyper-V server, including installing a fresh Hyper-V server, while considering that you are absolutely new to Hyper-V world, and before that you have never ever installed Hyper-V server. Later on, we will touch the other types of Hyper-V installations, such as upgrading existing Hyper-V server to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V role. We will also go deeper into the Windows Server Core concepts and see how to install and manage a Windows Server Core installation for Hyper-V server, by adding a Hyper-V role to a Windows Server Core.

Installing Hyper-V Server is not difficult, and can be done in a few steps; but before we install Hyper-V server in our environment, make sure that we have gone through the proper planning and designing exercises to better cater our server...