From the course: Windows Server 2016: Configure Hyper-V

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Hyper-V settings

Hyper-V settings

- [Instructor] The next step for getting ready for virtualization after installing the Hyper-V role would be to configure settings on the Hyper-V server. Now to do this, here in the Server Manager, I'm going to go up to the Tools menu and provided I've installed the Hyper-V role, which I have on this server, we'll see a tool here called the Hyper-V Manager. This is where the majority of your local virtualization management will take place. Here in the Hyper-V Manager, we can see that HOST-1 is the name of a computer that is acting as a Hyper-V host and if I right-click on HOST-1, you'll see here that there's a selection for Hyper-V Settings. Now, there is a number of different settings that we have here. First one right at the top says Virtual Hard Disks and this setting will specify the default folder location for any virtual hard disk that you create on this particular Hyper-V host. Now you'll see here that it is set to…

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