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1- Enable Hyper-V & Prerequest

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Active Directory Lab Hyper-V LAB
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Serves installation Hyper-V

Enable Hyper-V : #

  1. Windows 10/11 Pro Computer with good amount of memory at least 16G, i have 32G and more is preferred 😃
  2. Enable Hyper-v on Windows: Open PowerShell As Admin and run command and restart.
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All
  1. Download Windows Server 2022 ISO
  2. Download Windows 10 ISO or Windows 11 ISO

I prefer to change Hyper-V default folder to D:\HYPER-V

D:\HYPER-V
├───Virtual Hard Disks
└───Virtual Machines

Copy all ISO’s on one folder also

D:\IMAGES
   SERVER_2022_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso
   Win10_ent.iso
   Win11_22H2_English_x64v1.iso

In Hyper-V Settings change path for Virtual Hard Disks & Virtual Machines.

Create Hyper-V Nat Network & NAT Switch #

This configuration will but all VM’s on isolated subnet and allow them to access internet Set up a NAT network | Microsoft Docs

Create new VMSwitch and name it NAT

New-VMSwitch -SwitchName "NAT" -SwitchType Internal

List all network interface and note the interface ifIndex value of new create VMSwitch interface

Get-NetAdapter

My Ethernet adaptor ifIndex = 46 and will use subnet 172.30.0.0/24 for NAT network.

New-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 172.30.0.1 -PrefixLength 24 -InterfaceIndex 46
New-NetNat -Name NAT17230 -InternalIPInterfaceAddressPrefix 172.30.0.0/24

Use small DHCP server to auto configure IP on VM’s on NAT network : www.dhcpserver.de