Installing the Remote Management Tools for Windows 8 Hyper-V

If you want to manage your Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Server from a Windows 8 desktop computer – you may think that you need to install the Remote Server Administration Toolkit (which you can download here) but that is not what you need to do.

Because Hyper-V is now part of the desktop version of Windows, the Hyper-V management tools are always available through the Windows Features dialog:

 

Note, even if your computer cannot run Hyper-V (if your processor does not support hardware virtualization, or you are running the 32-bit version of Windows) you can still enable the Hyper-V Management Tools here.

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2012
  Ben, do you know if the Hyper-V Manager in Windows 8 will allow management of previous versions of Hyper-V at release? It currently doesn't in the Consumer Preview, which is a major inconvenience in using Windows 8 as a primary OS.

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2012
  Jeff - No, it doesn't.  I have a blog post coming on this shortly. Cheers, Ben

• Anonymous
  June 14, 2012
  Hi, Thanks for relevant and interesting article. Please tell me if there's any necessity to install other remote management tools like www.centrastage.com for example Can I manage my devices with your tool or I can manage only one device with this? Thanks

• Anonymous
  July 23, 2012
  Hi Ben, did you end up writing the follow up blog you mentioned? I've just gone through the pain of HVRemote only to then discover I can't manage my W2K8R2 server from Win8 client!

• Anonymous
  August 20, 2012
  Any news on how to manage Server 2008 R2 hyper-v from Windows 8, aside from installing a Windows 7 VM on Windows 8, installing the RSAT on it and then connecting to the Win7 VM? Thanks!

• Anonymous
  August 20, 2012
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• Anonymous
  August 23, 2012
  Hi Jeff, there is a way to install (or activate) the Remote FX over a Windows 8 (Enterprise) desktop? Everything I found about Remote FX is for Windows Server. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  September 26, 2012
  Is there instructions how to setup remote management Hyper-V Server 2012 from Windows 8 without adding them to domain? I tried all that I found, could connect MMC to remote Hyper-V server but still get error using Hyper-V console - "RPC-server not available" Please advise!

• Anonymous
  October 10, 2012
  What if the HV2012 and Win8 remote management client are in different workgroups and not in domains, is there more to this?

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2012
  Any update on this? Two weeks away from Win 8 hitting retail and I'd like to be able to manage my Hyper-V Server 2008 from Win 8. Eric

• Anonymous
  November 02, 2012
  Hi Ben! Any news about menage hyper-V server 2008R2 from windows 8? Thanks in advance! Bye! Fabio

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2012
  Guys, Ben says in the 2nd post that you can't manage HyperV Server 2012 with Windows 8.  You have to use a Server 2012 VM or a Windows 7 VM/pc to manage it.  This goes for Server 2012 with HyperV also.

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2012
  CORRECTION:  You can't manage HyperV Server 2008 R2 with Windows 8.  You have to use a Server 2008 R2 VM or a Windows 7 VM/pc to manage it.  This goes for Server 2008 R2 with HyperV also. Sorry for the typo!  Thanks to my buddy Mike R for noticing the error!

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2013
  Hi I am looking to switch out of ESXI, but I can't seem to find an iOS app that allow me to manage my Hyper-V test server.  Does an app exist for Windows phones?   Thank you

• Anonymous
  July 14, 2014
  Why bother, Hyper-V manager for Windows 8.1 is not backwards compatible. I this point I'd like to throw all the 4 letter words I know at the MS Software Engineers who should have their licenses revoked.

• Anonymous
  July 14, 2014
  Hi All - Details on why Hyper-V Manager in Windows 8 cannot manage 2012 R2 are available here: blogs.msdn.com/.../the-v2-wmi-namespace-in-hyper-v-on-windows-8.aspx Details on how to setup remote management in a workgroup: blogs.msdn.com/.../10089348.aspx Ivo - Hyper-V Manager in Windows 8.1 is backwards compatible!  Read here: blogs.msdn.com/.../managing-windows-server-2012-hyper-v-from-windows-8-1.aspx Cheers, Ben

• Anonymous
  May 05, 2015
  What if in the turn of features dont have the hyper v option .