For those coming from the VMware world of doing things and wanting to get their feet wet with Hyper-V, one of the nagging little things that you might run into when first trying to deploy a VM with Hyper-V is – how do you copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V? ย Let’s take a look with a standalone Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host how to copy our ISO to the server for using in VM deployment.
Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
Even with remote monitoring enabled in Hyper-V there is often many firewall rules that need to be enabled to do certain things connecting back to the Hyper-V server. ย When you install the Hyper-V 2016 server which is free, it is basically Server Core with the Hyper-V role already installed. ย Also, when you install Windows Server 2016 Server without the GUI, this is also Server Core. ย So, we need to enable the firewall rules from the commandline to be able to copy over a file to the Hyper-V host. ย The command below adds the exception in the advanced firewall rules for the Hyper-V host.
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=Yes
Below is the process I used to create a simple folder on an attached storage volume, then enabled the firewall rule.
Now, we can use a management workstation to copy an ISO file over to theย D:ISOs folder we just created by simply mapping a drive to theย D$ admin share.
If you want to then disable the firewall rule, the process is the same – change theย yes toย no on the enable rule.
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=No
When we create our Hyper-V VM guest, we can select the ISO image from the Hyper-V host local folder we created and uploaded the ISO image file to.
Thoughts
The process toย Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V server is a little more involved than in VMware ESXi server when you are copying the ISO to a standalone Hyper-V host. ย However, with the firewall exception and a management workstation, this task is easily accomplished.
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