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Section(s): Management
Published on Aug 26, 2008.
Last Modified on Jul 27, 2008.
Last Modified by Robert Larson.
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See more information about your virtual machines by removing unnecessary panes in the Hyper-V Admin Console.

The Hyper-V Admin Console has four panes visible by default. The left pane shows all the server you are managing, the top center pane provides information about the virtual machines registered on the server, the middle center pane provides details about the snapshots of the currently highlighted VM, the bottom center pane provides details on the running status and thumbnail view, and the right pane is the actions pane.

If you are only managing a single Hyper-V host, the the left pane will never change and it is eating up valuable screen real estate. To hide that pane, you can click the icon in the toobar that says "Show/Hide Console tree". This will hide the left pane and stretch the center panes to the left margin.

About Robert Larson

Robert Larson is the co-author of the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Resource Kit, and the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource kit, both published by Microsoft Press. Robert has over 20 years experience in the engineering and IT field. Currently an architect with Microsoft Consulting Services, Robert focuses on helping customers design and deploy optimized data center and server infrastructures using physical and virtual approaches. Robert has been working with various virtualization technologies for over 4 years and is a regular speaker at Microsoft TechEd conferences in the US and Europe on the Microsoft virtualization stack. Robert has also written whitepapers and delivered webcasts on virtualization technologies. You can visit Robert's blog