Hyper-V requirements

To configure the Hyper-V guest OS you must ensure that certain requirements are met.

Obtain the following applications in order to configure the Hyper-V guest OS:

  • Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service 4.7.0.
  • Server Hardware: Microsoft recommended server configuration for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
  • Multipathing I/O (MPIO) software. Available from your storage array vendor.