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title: Installing the Virtual Appliance
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/virtualgs/Kpab-installing-the-virtual-appliance
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T09:30:13.340Z
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Microsoft provides a Windows Server-based Hyper-V Manager application for managing your virtual infrastructure. This application can be used to install and administer the Traffic Manager virtual appliance on Hyper-V.

First obtain the appropriate virtual appliance disk image in VHD format. If the virtual appliance is delivered in a compressed archive file (for example, .zip), unpack this archive to your Windows server first.

To install the Virtual Appliance on Hyper-V

1. Launch the Hyper-V Manager application.
2. Connect to the Hyper-V host server you intend to create the virtual machine on.
3. From the Actions command list, choose **New > Virtual Machine…**
4. The New Virtual Machine wizard is displayed. The individual steps to follow are shown on the left, with the current step displayed in the main part of the window. The **Previous** and **Next** buttons allow navigation between the various steps.

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5. Specify Name and Location: Enter a suitably identifying name for your virtual machine. Optionally enter an alternative location for the virtual machine to be stored.
6. Assign Memory: Enter the total amount of allocated memory (RAM) to be made available to the virtual machine. This should be equal to the amount specified in [System Requirements](docId:8ygsoDQ0k61wGfAhRSc56).
7. Configure Networking: A suitable connection needs to be created between the network interfaces within your Hyper-V virtual infrastructure and the interface on the Traffic Manager virtual appliance. Select the virtual switch interface from the drop-down list you want this connection to use.
8. Connect Virtual Hard Disk: Ivanti provides the necessary virtual hard disk as part of the Traffic Manager virtual appliance package. Click **Use an existing virtual hard disk** and provide the full path to the .vhd file from your unpacked virtual appliance archive. Alternatively click **Browse…** to locate it in the file explorer dialog.
9. Summary: Click **Finish** to complete the process.

:::hint{type="info"}
Some variants of Hyper-V Manager contain an additional wizard step to specify which Generation your virtual machine belongs to. For this step, choose "Generation 1".
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Your Traffic Manager virtual appliance appears in the Virtual Machines pane of the main window. To start the appliance, click **Start** in the Actions pane below the virtual machine name.