Hyper-V Hardware Requirements

This video will look at the hardware requirements for Hyper-V. Check out http://YouTube.com/ITFreeTraining or http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. If your computer does not meet these requirements you will not be able to run Hyper-V.
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Hyper-V requires a 64bit CPU. 32bit CPU’s are not supported. For both Intel and AMD CPU’s Data Execution Prevention (DEP) must be supported. This has been supported for a long time so it is likely that modern CPU’s support this. For Intel CPU’s eXecute Disabled (XD) and AMD No eXecute (NX) is required. Lastly the BIOS is required to support virtualization. It may need to be updated in order to support this requirement. All featured CPU’s released after 2006 should support these features. Some CPU’s, for example low powered CPU’s, may not support these features since they are not full featured CPU’s. If you want to check the CPU, there are free tools from Microsoft, AMD and Intel, however these are required to be installed and in some of the tools you may need to know what to look for. A free tool called SecureAble is available which can quickly tell if your computer supports virtualization. Also, if you attempt to install the Hyper-V role, a check is performed and if the computer does not meet the requirements, the install of the role will fail. Intel and AMD both have product web sites where you can check your CPU to make sure that it meets the requirements.
Demonstration SecurAble
02:19 Open Internet Explorer and go to the web site http://www.grc.com/securable
02:28 From the website, select the option at the bottom “download now” and then select “run”.
02:35 SecurAble will run without any installation. The 3 options on the screen will tell you if your computer meets the 3 requirements. If 64 is displayed, the CPU is 64bit. If Yes is displayed for Hardware DEP then this is displayed. If Yes is disabled for hardware virtualization, then your CPU meets the requirements and also virtualization is enabled in the BIOS.
Demonstration Intel ARK
The Intel ark web site allows information about Intel products to be obtained and also different Intel products to be compared with each other.
03:25 Open the web site http://ark.intel.com/
03:42 The option advanced search is not available from the home page. To access it, select any CPU. In this case the option “Intel High End Desktop Processors” was selected.
03:55 Once the page has opened, select the option on the top right “Feature Filter”.
04:00 To perform a search of all CPU’s, press the X next to “High End CPU’s” at the top of the screen. This will remove the High End CPU’s filter and allow all CPU’s to be searched.
04:10 From the left hand side select “Intel 64” to Yes and “Intel Virtualization” to No. Once the options have been selected, press search. This will show all the Intel 64bit CPU’s that do not support virtualization. This will show that all the low powered CPU’s like Atom do not support virtualization.
04:48 Change the virtualization setting to Yes and press search again. This will show all 64bit CPU’s that support virtualization. The results will show quite a lot of matches. It is most likely that if you have a full featured CPU made after 2007 it will support virtualization.
Demonstration AMD Product Central
05:09 Select your required language from the home page. In this case United States –English was selected.
05:18 The main screen is divided into different section, notebook, desktop and Server. You will need to make sure that you select the right one for the type of CPU that you have. In this case the option for Desktop Processors was selected.
05:29 There is no option for 64bit CPU, however AMD released its first 64bit CPU back in 2003 so if you have an AMD CPU, there is a good chance that it is a 64bit CPU. In this case virtualization is set to no. There is only a small number of CPU’s that are listed.
05:46 Select option “clear filter” to clear the existing filter and then set the option “AMD Virtualization Technology” to Yes. You can see there are a lot of results. If your CPU was purchased after 2008 it most likely meets all these requirements. If the CPU was released after this, check on this web site to make sure that it meets the requirements.
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