Hyper-V Manager allows users designated as administrators of the management operating system to manage virtual machines on a host. Authorized users can perform management tasks on the host, such as starting and stopping VMs, importing and deploying VMs, and managing snapshots. By default, anyone who is a local administrator of the management operating system can use Hyper-V Manager on the host. In addition, a user can also use Hyper-V Manager to remotely manage Hyper-V on other servers in a domain to which the user has administrative access.

SCVMM may use run-as-account to perform operations on the Hyper-V host. Zerto Virtual Manager also uses the default run‑as‑account to perform operations on this host.