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Installation - HyperV

To Deploy the collector on HyperV

Download the Hyper-V image to the destination Drive, or Cluster Shared Volume.

Extract the Zip File – you will need at least 10GB of free space:

Open up Hyper-V Manager

Click on Import Virtual Machine:

Press Next on the Wizard:

Select the Directory below the one you extracted it to:

(There should be 3 sub directories – Snapshots, Virtual Hard Disks and Virtual Machines) Press Next:

Select the NMS Collector and press Next:

If this is the first, or only collector in the Hyper-V Estate, select “Register the virtual machine in-place”, Otherwise use “Copy the Virtual Machine”, then Press Next:

Review the Summary and Press Next:

Now configure the Virtual Hardware, right click on the VM, and choose “Settings”:

Alter the Network Adapter to bridge to the correct virtual Network:

If you need to add a secondary NIC, to separate the Management Traffic from the Monitoring Traffic, do this now.​

(The secondary NIC will be used for Monitoring, and will need to have static routes configured on the install wizard.)

Power on the Virtual Machine:

Connect to the console:

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