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Remotely manage Hyper-V hosts with

Hyper-V Manager
12/06/2016 • 6 minutes to read • +2

In this article
Supported combinations of Hyper-V Manager and Hyper-V host versions
Connect to a Hyper-V host
Manage Hyper-V on a local computer
Manage Hyper-V hosts remotely
Install Hyper-V Manager
Additional References

Applies To: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, Windows
8.1

This article lists the supported combinations of Hyper-V hosts and Hyper-V Manager
versions and describes how to connect to remote and local Hyper-V hosts so you can
manage them.

Hyper-V Manager lets you manage a small number of Hyper-V hosts, both remote and
local. It's installed when you install the Hyper-V Management Tools, which you can do
either through a full Hyper-V installation or a tools-only installation. Doing a tools-only
installation means you can use the tools on computers that don't meet the hardware
requirements to host Hyper-V. For details about hardware for Hyper-V hosts, see System
requirements.

If Hyper-V Manager isn't installed, see the instructions below.

Supported combinations of Hyper-V Manager

and Hyper-V host versions
In some cases you can use a different version of Hyper-V Manager than the Hyper-V
version on the host, as shown in the table. When you do this, Hyper-V Manager

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provides the features available for the version of Hyper-V on the host you're managing.
For example, if you use the version of Hyper-V Manager in Windows Server 2012 R2 to
remotely manage a host running Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012, you won't be able to
use features available in Windows Server 2012 R2 on that Hyper-V host.

The following table shows which versions of a Hyper-V host you can manage from a
particular version of Hyper-V Manager. Only supported operating system versions are
listed. For details about the support status of a particular operating system version, use
the Search product lifecycle button on the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy page. In general,
older versions of Hyper-V Manager can only manage a Hyper-V host running the same
version or the comparable Windows Server version.

Hyper-V Manager version Hyper-V host version

Windows Server 2016, - Windows Server 2016—all editions and installation

Windows 10 options, including Nano Server, and corresponding version
of Hyper-V Server
- Windows Server 2012 R2—all editions and installation
options, and corresponding version of Hyper-V Server
- Windows Server 2012—all editions and installation
options, and corresponding version of Hyper-V Server
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1

Windows Server 2012 R2,
Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2012 R2—all editions and installation
options, and corresponding version of Hyper-V Server
- Windows Server 2012—all editions and installation
options, and corresponding version of Hyper-V Server
- Windows 8.1

Windows Server 2012 - Windows Server 2012—all editions and installation

options, and corresponding version of Hyper-V Server

Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows Server 2008 R2—all editions and installation
Service Pack 1, Windows 7 options, and corresponding version of Hyper-V Server
Service Pack 1

Windows Server 2008, - Windows Server 2008—all editions and installation

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 options, and corresponding version of Hyper-V Server

Note

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Service pack support ended for Windows 8 on January 12, 2016. For more
information, see the Windows 8.1 FAQ .

Connect to a Hyper-V host

To connect to a Hyper-V host from Hyper-V Manager, right-click Hyper-V Manager in
the left pane, and then click Connect to Server.

Manage Hyper-V on a local computer

Hyper-V Manager doesn't list any computers that host Hyper-V until you add the
computer, including a local computer. To do this:

1. In the left pane, right-click Hyper-V Manager.

2. Click Connect to Server.
3. From Select Computer, click Local computer and then click OK.

If you can't connect:

It's possible that only the Hyper-V tools are installed. To check that Hyper-V
platform is installed, look for the Virtual Machine Management service. /(Open the
Services desktop app: click Start, click the Start Search box, type services.msc, and
then press Enter. If the Virtual Machine Management service isn't listed, install the
Hyper-V platform by following the instructions in Install Hyper-V.
Check that your hardware meets the requirements. See System requirements.
Check that your user account belongs to the Administrators group or the Hyper-V
Administrators group.

Manage Hyper-V hosts remotely

To manage remote Hyper-V hosts, enable remote management on both the local
computer and remote host.

On Windows Server, open Server Manager >Local Server >Remote management and
then click Allow remote connections to this computer.

Or, from either operating system, open Windows PowerShell as Administrator and run:

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Enable-PSRemoting

Connect to hosts in the same domain

For Windows 8.1 and earlier, remote management works only when the host is in the
same domain and your local user account is also on the remote host.

To add a remote Hyper-V host to Hyper-V Manager, select Another computer in the
Select Computer dialogue box and type the remote host's hostname, NetBIOS name, or
fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

Hyper-V Manager in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 offers more types of
remote connection than previous versions, described in the following sections.

Connect to a Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10

remote host as a different user
This lets you connect to the Hyper-V host when you're not running on the local
computer as a user that's a member of either the Hyper-V Administrators group or the
Administrators group on the Hyper-V host. To do this:

1. In the left pane, right-click Hyper-V Manager.

2. Click Connect to Server.
3. Select Connect as another user in the Select Computer dialogue box.
4. Select Set User.

Note

This will only work for Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 remote hosts.

Connect to a Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10

remote host using IP address
To do this:

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1. In the left pane, right-click Hyper-V Manager.

2. Click Connect to Server.
3. Type the IP address into the Another Computer text field.

Note

This will only work for Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 remote hosts.

Connect to a Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10

remote host outside your domain, or with no domain
To do this:

1. On the Hyper-V host to be managed, open a Windows PowerShell session as

Administrator.

2. Create the necessary firewall rules for private network zones:

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Enable-PSRemoting

3. To allow remote access on public zones, enable firewall rules for CredSSP and
WinRM:

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Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role server

For details, see Enable-PSRemoting and Enable-WSManCredSSP.

Next, configure the computer you'll use to manage the Hyper-V host.

1. Open a Windows PowerShell session as Administrator.

2. Run these commands:

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Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "fqdn-of-hyper-

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v-host"

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Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role client -DelegateComputer "fqdn-of-hyper-

v-host"

3. You might also need to configure the following group policy:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System >

Credentials Delegation > Allow delegating fresh credentials with NTLM-
only server authentication
Click Enable and add wsman/fqdn-of-hyper-v-host.

4. Open Hyper-V Manager.

5. In the left pane, right-click Hyper-V Manager.

6. Click Connect to Server.

Note

This will only work for Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 remote hosts.

For cmdlet details, see Set-Item and Enable-WSManCredSSP.

Install Hyper-V Manager

To use a UI tool, choose the one appropriate for the operating system on the computer
where you'll run Hyper-V Manager:

On Windows Server, open Server Manager > Manage > Add roles and features. Move
to the Features page and expand Remote server administration tools > Role
administration tools > Hyper-V management tools.

On Windows, Hyper-V Manager is available on any Windows operating system that

includes Hyper-V.

1. On the Windows desktop, click the Start button and begin typing Programs and

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features.
2. In search results, click Programs and Features.
3. In the left pane, click Turn Windows features on or off.
4. Expand the Hyper-V folder, and click Hyper-V Management Tools.
5. To install Hyper-V Manager, click Hyper-V Management Tools. If you want to also
install the Hyper-V module, click that option.

To use Windows PowerShell, run the following command as Administrator:

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add-windowsfeature rsat-hyper-v-tools

Additional References
Install Hyper-V

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