How to Install Hyper-V on a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V

BEFORE STARTING IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THIS ENVIRONMENT IS

NOT SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT. USE IT ONLY FOR SELF STUDY AND
LABORATORY OF CLUSTER OF HYPER-V
Hello everybody, everyday often some information technology professionals ask me if it is
possible to install Hyper-V on a virtual machine. We all know that a HYPERVISOR can only be
installed and officially supported in production physical servers, this prevents many
professionals study and increase your knowledge of Hyper-V.
If you have tried to install the Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 through Server
Manager probably encountered the following message: The following message appears
preventing you from continuing the process: Hyper-V can not be installed: The hypervisor is
already running.

Now I have good news and bad news for you who are eager to learn how to install the Hyper-V
virtual machine. The good news is that through PowerShell you can install but the bad news is
that unfortunately you are not able to start the virtual machines, but for self-study lab and is
already a great improvement you can create a cluster of Hyper-V and verify in practice how it all
works. However I will teach you how to install the Hyper-V as well as the Cluster service.
The first thing you need to do is to open and change the PowerShell execution policy scripts to
RemoteSigned then run the following command to install the Hyper-V :
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V All -NoRestart

PS: Do not restart the virtual machine

The above command installs only the hypervisor but does not install the administration tools, so
you can manage the Hyper-V within the virtual machine you must install RSAT for Hyper-V to
do this run the following command:
Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-Hyper-V-Tools -IncludeAllSubFeature

Now I suppose you want to create a cluster then you need to install the Cluster service, run:
Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-Clustering -IncludeAllSubFeature

Optionally you can install Multipath I/O to enable multiple paths to the storage, if this is your
case follow:
Install-WindowsFeature Multipath-IO

The image below shows a summary of all commands, simply restart to finalize the virtual
machine with the command:
Restart-Computer

Done ! Now just open the console of the Hyper-V Manager and create a virtual machine, note
that I created a virtual machine named VM-VM-INSIDE. Create your cluster and have fun !!!

DONT FORGET ! BEFORE STARTING IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THIS

ENVIRONMENT IS NOT SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT. USE IT ONLY FOR SELF
STUDY AND LABORATORY OF CLUSTER OF HYPER-V