One of the popular misconceptions about the free Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is that you cannot use Tiered Storage with the free OS version. That’s far from true, and in this step-by-step Screencast , we demonstrate two approaches when configuring Storage Tiers in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2:

– The easy way – connecting remotely from a standard version of Server 2012 R2 and using the GUI.
– The fast way – in PowerShell, locally on the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, where you have more control over the Tiered Storage parameters.