Best Practices Analyzer for Hyper-V: Prerequisites

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012

The topics in this section explain how to prepare Hyper-V for running a Best Practices Analyzer scan for the first time. Content in this section is most valuable to administrators who recently installed Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 orWindows Server 2008 R2 and want information about configuration steps or other preparations that must be completed before they can run a Best Practices Analyzer scan on Hyper-V for the first time.

Best Practices Analyzer and prerequisite rules

The Best Practices Analyzer applies prerequisite rules to identify gaps in Hyper-V configuration that should be addressed before administrators run a Best Practices Analyzer scan on Hyper-V for the first time.

For more information about Best Practices Analyzer and scans, see Best Practices Analyzer (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122786).

Topics in this section

• Hyper-V: Windows hypervisor must be running

• Hyper-V: The Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service must be running

• Hyper-V: The Hyper-V Networking Management service must be running

• Hyper-V: The Hyper-V Image Management service must be running