Remotely managing Hyper-V hosts from workgroup computer

On Hyper-V host open PowerShell as administrator:

Enable-PSRemoting

To allow remote access on public zones, enable firewall rules for CredSSP and WinRM:

Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role server

On workstation computer (from which we need to access Hyper-V host edit hosts file

and add ip addressess of Hyper-V hosts

From CMD (Run as admin) add Hyper-V hosts as trusted hosts:

winrm set winrm/config/client @{TrustedHosts="hyperv-01,hyperv-02"}

 

Add Hyper-V hosts credentials:

cmdkey /add:hyperv-01 /user:test\administrator /pass:Password01
cmdkey /add:hyperv-02 /user:test\administrator /pass:Password01

Add server to Hyper-V manager on workstartion computer (install it first)

Using PowerShell:

# Install only the PowerShell module
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Management-PowerShell
 
# Install the Hyper-V management tool pack (Hyper-V Manager and the Hyper-V PowerShell module)
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Tools-All

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