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Hyper-V PDF Bible

Posted on March 4, 2016 by edemilliere
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Hello,

Microsoft published Hyper-V PDF Bibles, all in one location : Continue reading →

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Update Your VM To Use New Features

Posted on August 6, 2015 by edemilliere
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Hello,

If you played with some preview build of Windows 10 and/or Windows Server 2016, you may want to upgrade your VM configuration version. Indeed, Ben published an interesting version/feature table : Continue reading →

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Get and repair VHD Fragmentation on Hyper-V with PowerShell

Posted on May 29, 2015 by edemilliere
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Hello,

From your Hyper-V host, you can see how much your VHDs are fragemented : Continue reading →

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Get the name of your Hyper-V host from your VM

Posted on August 18, 2014 by edemilliere
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Hello,

You can know the name of your Hyper-V host from your VM from the registry :

Continue reading →

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Create Hyper-V external VMSwitch with PowerShell

Posted on July 23, 2014 by edemilliere
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You can create Hyper-V VMSwitches very easely with Powershell since Hyper-V 2012 : Continue reading →

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Get Hyper-V VM IOPS statistics

Posted on July 15, 2014 by edemilliere
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Hello,

If you enabled VMResourceMetering, you can view statistics about those :

Continue reading →

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Identifies resources hungry VM on Hyper-V

Posted on May 12, 2014 by edemilliere
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Hello,

This is a nice PowerShell/Hyper-V feature that allow you to see per VM resources consumptions :

Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, Virtualization | Tagged Hyper-V, Performances, PowerShell, Server2012, Server2012r2 | Leave a reply

Connect to VM without openning Hyper-V manager GUI

Posted on March 28, 2014 by edemilliere
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Hello,

Hyper-V manager GUI isn’t that fast and responsive, that’s event more true on Hyper-V home lab or on limited hardware host (yes, the ones we use for sandbox environment). So hereunder a PowerShell way to connect to VM with “VMCONNECT” without the GUI :
Continue reading →

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Check Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)

Posted on February 25, 2014 by edemilliere
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If you use AVMA, and you want to be sure that the process is working correctly, you need to search in the “Application” eventlog, on your VM’s, and on your Hyper-V host. Continue reading →

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Saving storage capacity on Hyper-V host

Posted on February 10, 2014 by edemilliere
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Storage for Hyper-V host isn’t so cheap, that’s even more true with high availability. Continue reading →

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