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→A Quick Tour of the Hyper-V Manager
Once connections to remote servers running Hyper-V are connected established, they will appear in the list along with the local system. Servers may be removed from the list by selecting the server from the list and clicking on the ''Remove Server'' link in the ''Actions'' panel on the right hand side of the Hyper-V Manager window.
The central panel is divided into three sub-panels. The top provides a list of virtual machines which are configured on the server which is currently selected in the right hand panel. The list contains the name of the virtual machine together with CPU usage, uptime and operations information. When a virtual machine is selected from the list, a collection of actions for that virtual machine will appear in the right hand ''Actions'' panel. The same list of virtual machine specific commands may also be accessed from a popup menu by right clicking on the VM from the list. In order to view the console of a running virtual machine, select the ''Connect...'' action option. Another, quicker way to display the console for a virtual machine is to simply double click on the entry in the list. Once selected, the ''Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection'' tool will appear displaying the console for the virtual machine.
The following figure shows the console for a virtual machine which that is in the process of installing Windows Server 2008 as a guest operating system:
The central panel contains a list of any snapshots which that have been taken for the selected virtual machine. Once again, selecting a snapshot from the list causes a list of actions to appear in the right hand panel. The same list may also be accessed by right clicking on a specific snapshot in the list.
The bottom panel displays additional information about the currently selected item (either a virtual machine or a snapshot).
Finally, the right hand panel provides a list of actions that may be performed. The top section contains actions specific to the Hyper-V server. The area below these actions displays context sensitive actions depending on the currently selected item. For example, if a virtual machine is selected, the actions offered will be related to that virtual machine. Similarly, with a snapshot selected, relevant actions for that snapshot will be displayed instead.
In addition to the panels outlined above, many of the same actions amy may be accessed from the menu bar running across the top edge of the Hyper-V Manager window.
== Customizing Hyper-V Manager ==
