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Microsoft published Hyper-V PDF Bibles, all in one location : Continue reading
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Category Archives: Virtualization
Update Your VM To Use New Features
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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
Get and repair VHD Fragmentation on Hyper-V with PowerShell
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From your Hyper-V host, you can see how much your VHDs are fragemented : Continue reading
Get the name of your Hyper-V host from your VM
Create Hyper-V external VMSwitch with PowerShell
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You can create Hyper-V VMSwitches very easely with Powershell since Hyper-V 2012 : Continue reading
Get Hyper-V VM IOPS statistics
Identifies resources hungry VM on Hyper-V
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This is a nice PowerShell/Hyper-V feature that allow you to see per VM resources consumptions :
Connect to VM without openning Hyper-V manager GUI
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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 :
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Check Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)
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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
Saving storage capacity on Hyper-V host
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Storage for Hyper-V host isn’t so cheap, that’s even more true with high availability. Continue reading