Virtualization issue with VMWare and Cloudera

I have tried solving this issue through several different tutorials including the ones on this forum. Regardless of what I do to initialize the Hyper-V Platform (UEFI does not exist as an option so I have tried the BIOS route, etc .), the Hyper-V Platform remains grayed out. I now need to be able to have Hyper-V activated in order to complete a course on Hadoop which uses VMware Playstation and Cloudera.
The specs are as follows:
Windows 8.0 Pro (original install on the computer) - tried to...

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