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Best Steps To Activate Hyper-V on Windows 10
In this article from the Orcacore website, we want to teach you how to activate Hyper-V on Windows 10. Hyper-V is a Microsoft technology that allows users to create virtual computing environments. Also, users can run and manage multiple operating systems on a single physical server.
Virtualization technologies, or platforms, are known as hypervisors.
There are many hypervisors in the market. Hyper-V is Microsoft’s version. Some others that are well-known are VMware’s ESXi and vSphere, XenServer (Citrix), KVM Open Source Hypervisor, and RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization).
To use Hyper-V on a regular desktop or laptop, you’ll need a Professional or Enterprise edition of Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.
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How To Activate Hyper-V on Windows 10?
To activate Hyper-V on your Windows client, press the Winkey+R to open the Run window. Then, type the appwiz.cpl in the Run window to open the Program and Features window.
Note: You can open the Program and Features window from the Control Panel too.
Enable Hyper-V From Program and Features
After this, click on the Turn Windows Features on or off. And search for the Hyper-V and click on it.
Then, press ok to search the component system and its installation files in the system.
Access Hyper-V on Windows 10
After Windows completed the requested changes, from your start menu search for the Hyper-V manager and click on it to open the Hyper-V Manager window.
At this point, you have successfully activated Hyper-V on Windows 10.
You can see the Hyper-V manager like the image below:
Let’s see some Hyper-V highlights and features:
- Develop and test applications, operating systems, and upgrades.
- Easily scale your IT infrastructure to accommodate larger workloads.
- Save or migrate data from a legacy system.
- Improve business continuity.
Conclusion
You can easily activate Hyper-V on Windows 10. With Hyper-V, you can create and delete virtual machines. Monitor uptime, bandwidth utilization, CPU, and RAM consumption. Also, you can perform backups and allocate resources.
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