Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho and Charbel Nemnom

About This Book

• This book helps you gain a fresh perspective through a recipe-based approach on the new Microsoft Server 2016 Hyper-V
• Over 80 recipes to help you master the administrative tasks of Hyper-V and get to grips with advanced solutions and techniques for virtualization
• These hands-on advanced recipes will help you deploy, maintain, and upgrade Hyper-V virtual machines

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Hyper-V administrators who are looking to take advantage of all exciting new features that Microsoft Server 2016 Hyper-V has to offer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Jan 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781785885341

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Table of Contents

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

www.PacktPub.com

eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server

Introduction

Verifying Hyper-V requirements

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Enabling the Hyper-V role

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Installing Hyper-V using Windows PowerShell

See also

Installing Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, and Nano Server

Getting ready

How to do it...

Create a Nano Server Image using PowerShell

Create a Nano Server image using Nano Server Image Builder

Deploy Nano Server on a physical machine

How it works...

See also

Managing a Server Core installation using sconfig

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Remotely managing a Nano Server installation

Getting ready

How to do it...

Managing Nano Server using PowerShell

Getting ready

How to do it

How it works

Managing Nano Server using Server Management Tools – SMT

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring Hyper-V post-installation settings

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

2. Migrating and Upgrading Physical and Virtual Servers

Introduction

Performing an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Why Windows Update?

See also

Exporting and importing virtual machines

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Migrating virtual machines and updating their Integration Services

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Migrating virtual machine using Cross Version Shared Nothing Live Migration

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Configuring constrained delegation to authenticate live migrations

See also

Migrating virtual machine storage using Storage Migration

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Moving all the virtual machines to a new storage location

Converting VHD files to VHDX

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Upgrading the VM configuration version

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Converting physical computers to virtual machines

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Converting physical computers to virtual machines using the command line

3. Managing Disk and Network Settings

Introduction

Creating and adding virtual hard disks

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Online resizing for VHDX virtual hard disk

Adding a pass-through disk for a virtual machine

Creating virtual machines on file servers

See also

Configuring IDE and SCSI controllers

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Configuring the Storage Quality of Service

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Minimum IOPS

Maximum IOPS

There's more…

See also

Configuring and adding Virtual Fibre Channel storage

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating resource pools

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Enabling and adding NIC teaming

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Creating and managing virtual switches

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Using legacy network adapters

See also

Using advanced virtual machine network settings

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Adding and removing vmNICs

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

4. Saving Time and Cost with Hyper-V Automation

Introduction

Creating virtual machine templates

Getting ready...

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Learning and utilizing basic commands in PowerShell

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using PowerShell commands for daily tasks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using PowerShell ISE for advanced script editing

Enabling scripts to be executed in PowerShell

See also

Enabling and working with remote connection and administration through PowerShell

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Managing virtual machines with PowerShell Direct

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Hyper-V management and PowerShell improvements

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

5. Hyper-V Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks

Introduction

Using the Hyper-V best practices analyzer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using PowerShell to create HTML reports with the BPA results

Optimizing virtual machines' resources

Getting ready

How to do it...

Virtual NUMA

NUMA spanning

Virtual machine settings

How it works...

There's more...

Using PowerShell to manage memory for virtual machines

See also

Enabling nested virtualization

Getting ready

Requirements

Supported scenarios

Unsupported scenarios

How to do it...

Networking option 1 – MAC address spoofing

Networking option 2 – network address translation

How it works...

See also

Graphics virtualization in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Getting ready

How to do it...

RemoteFX vGPU configuration

Prioritizing H.264/AVC 444 Graphics mode for Remote Desktop connections

Configuring H.264/AVC hardware encoding for Remote Desktop Connections

How it works...

There's more...

Installing and configuring anti-virus for the host and virtual machines

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Protecting your virtualized environment with 5nine Cloud Security

6. Security and Delegation of Control

Introduction

Configuring Windows Update for Hyper-V

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Delegating control in Hyper-V

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

Configuring Port ACLs

Getting ready…

How to do it…

How it works…

See also…

Installing and configuring BitLocker for data protection

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Configuring Hyper-V auditing

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works

Virtual Machine Secure boot

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also…

VM protection (vTPM)

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also…

Shielded VM

Getting ready…

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also…

Host Resource Protection

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also…

7. Configuring High Availability in Hyper-V

Introduction

Installing and configuring block and file storage in Windows Server 2016

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also…

Installing and configuring the Windows Failover Clustering feature

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Protected Networks

There's more…

See also…

Enabling cluster shared volumes

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Configuring CSV Cache for Hyper-V environments

See also…

Rolling cluster upgrades

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also…

Configuring Cluster-Aware Updating for cluster nodes

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Using PowerShell to manage Cluster-Aware Updating

Generating reports on past updating runs

See also…

Using Live Migration in a cluster environment

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also…

Configuring VM Priority for clustered virtual machines

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

VM Load Balancing

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

VM Compute Resiliency

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Virtual Machine Storage Resiliency

8. Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V

Introduction

Backing up Hyper-V and VMs using Windows Server Backup

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Checking the Windows Server Backup PowerShell commandlets

Backing up Hyper-V VMs using PowerShell

See also

Restoring Hyper-V and VMs using Windows Server Backup

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring Hyper-V Replica between three Hyper-V hosts using HTTP authentication

Getting ready

How to do it...

Support for Hot Add/Remove of Disks

Hyper-V Replica Rolling Cluster upgrade support

Protection of Multi-VM and Guest Clustered applications support

Protection of Shielded virtual machines

Protection of virtual machines hosted on Nano Server Hyper-V

How it works...

There's more...

Throttling Hyper-V Replica Traffic

Using PowerShell to configure and enable Hyper-V Replica

Advanced Hyper-V Replica Monitoring

See also

Configuring Hyper-V Replica Broker for a Failover Cluster

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring Hyper-V Replica to use certificate-based authentication using an Enterprise CA

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using checkpoints in VMs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

9. Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup for Hyper-V

Introduction

Enabling Hyper-V virtual machines protection to Azure with Azure Site Recovery and Microsoft Azure Backup Server

Getting ready

How to do it...

Step 1: Create an Azure Site Recovery vault

Step 2: Prepare Infrastructure - Protection Goal

Step 2: Prepare Infrastructure – Prepare Source

Step 2: Prepare infrastructure – Prepare Target

Step 2: Prepare infrastructure – replication settings

Step 2: Prepare infrastructure – capacity planning

Step 3: Replicate the application

Step 4: Manage Recovery Plans - Create Recovery Plan

Step 4: Manage Recovery Plans - Customize Recovery Settings

Step 5: Run a test failover

Step 6: Monitoring Azure Site Recovery - Jobs, Alerts and Events

Step 6: Monitoring Azure Site Recovery - General Monitoring

How it works...

There's more...

Using Windows PowerShell to replicate between on-premises Hyper-V VMs and Azure

Backing up to Azure

See also

10. Monitoring, Tuning, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V

Introduction

Using real-time monitoring tools

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Using Perfmon for logged monitoring

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Hyper-V general:

Physical and virtual processor:

Memory:

Disk:

Network:

See also

Using VM monitoring

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Monitoring Hyper-V Replica

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Using resource metering

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Tuning your Hyper-V server

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Using event viewer for Hyper-V troubleshooting

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

A. Hyper-V Architecture and Components

Understanding Hypervisors

VMM Type 2

VMM Hybrid

VMM Type 1

Hyper-V architecture

Windows before Hyper-V

Windows after Hyper-V

Hyper-V architecture components

Hypervisor

Partitions

Virtualization stack

Enlightened (high performance) versus emulated (low performance)

Backup improvements

Differences between Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, Nano Server, Hyper-V Server, Hyper-V Client, and VMware

Hyper-V limitations improvements

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Nano Server

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016

Hyper-V Client

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V X VMware vSphere 6.5

Automatic Virtual Machine Activation

Hyper-V comparing technologies

Index

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

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Credits

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About the Authors

Patrick Lownds is a Master level Solution Architect working for TS Consulting WW, in the Cloud Professional Services practice, for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and is based out of London (UK). Patrick is also a current Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Management (CDM) and has worked in the IT industry since 1988 on various technologies, including Windows Server Hyper-V, System Center, Windows Azure Pack, and Microsoft Azure.

In his current role, he works mainly with the most recent versions of Windows Server, Microsoft Azure Stack, and Microsoft Azure. Although, Patrick's current area of personal interest is Windows Containers and Docker. Patrick has participated in the Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Continuous Customer Engagement Program (CCEP) and Azure Stack Early Adoption Initiative Program.

Patrick has previously contributed to a number of books entitled Mastering Hyper-V Deployment, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide. All of which were published by Wiley and Sybex. He blogs and tweets in his spare time and can be found on Twitter as @patricklownds.

When not consulting, speaking, writing or researching, he can be found on a rugby pitch teaching contact rugby to children of various ages.

Acknowledgments

Fourth time lucky! Writing takes quite a bit of personal commitment and dedication, but it also takes a lot of support. Taking up such a project would not be possible without help from family, friends, and colleagues. I would like to thank my wife, Lisa, for her continued help and for simply keeping everything together, and my children for being especially patient while I worked.

A special thanks go to the editors at Packt Publishing (huge thanks goes to Rahul Nair, Mehvash Fatima, Nirant Carvalho, and Narsimha Pai) for taking this project and making it a reality.

My co-author (Charbel Nemnom) for giving me the opportunity to write with him. As part of this book project, I got the opportunity to write about features that I had not had the opportunity to dive deeply into, and so I also got the opportunity to go and develop my own skills as part of the process.

Finally, I would like to thank a number of people for helping me along the way: Ben Armstrong, Rob Hindman, Lars Iwer, Kathy Davies, Catherine Watson, Subhasish Bhattacharya, Patrick Lang, Jim Wooldridge, and Matt McSpirit.

Charbel Nemnom is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Management (CDM) and a Technical Evangelist for 5nine Software and Unidesk Coporation. Charbel has extensive Infrastructure expertise and a vast knowledge of a variety of Microsoft and VMware technologies. He has over fifteen years of professional experience in the Information Technology field and guiding technical teams to optimize the performance of mission-critical enterprise systems. He has worked as a system and network engineer, senior consultant, and as regional technical manager and has a history of successful enterprise projects in the IT, banks, education, and publishing sectors. He works as a Virtualization Consultant and Architect in the MENA region. He authored Getting Started with Windows Nano Server, co-authored Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook, Second Edition, and reviewed Hyper-V Best Practices books (Packt Publishing). Charbel also runs his blog at (https://charbelnemnom.com) where he blogs frequently about Software Defined Datacenter and Cloud Computing. Charbel is Microsoft, Cisco, and VMware certified and holds the following credentials: VCA-DCV, MCP, MCSA, MCTS, MCITP, MCS, MCSD, MCSE, CCNP, ITIL®, and PMP®. You can also follow him on Twitter @CharbelNemnom.

Books don't write, edit, and publish themselves. I would like to dedicate a big thank you to my family for their support and patience for being busier than usual the last one year, and for always supporting the crazy things I want to do, who is the reason that I can fulfill my dream and follow my passion.

Of course, the book wouldn't be possible at all without the Packt Publishing team for supporting all the authors and reviewers during this project. I want to say a big thank you to the Acquisition Editors Rahul Nair, Content Development Team Mehvash Fatima, and Technical Editors Nirant Carvalho, Narsimha Pai.

Thanks also to my co-author Patrick Lownds and the reviewers who provided feedback during the book development: Leandro Carvalho, Didier Van Hoye, and Carsten Rachfahl.

Finally, I want to thank Microsoft product group individually and give them the credit they deserve for helping make this book as good as possible (if I've missed anyone, I'm truly sorry): Ben Armstrong, Mathew John, Sarah Cooley, Theo Thomson, Andy Atkinson, Chris Huybregts, Jim Wooldridge, Lars Iwer, Steven Ekren, Claus Joergensen, Cosmos Darwin, Elden Christensen, Subhasish Bhattacharya, Don Stanwyck, Andrew Mason, Anders Ravnholt, Dan Harman, Venkat Yalla, Samuel Li, Rajani Janaki Ram, Rochak Mittal, Aditi Gangwar, Neela Syam Kolli, Shon Shah, Sneha Agrawal, Swapnil Sumbe, Ravi Chivukula, Nirbhay Singh, Ashish Mehndi, and Schumann Ge.

Leandro Carvalho works as Microsoft specialist with products such as Windows Server, Hyper-V, Public and Private Cloud, Office 365, Security, System Center, Exchange, Sharepoint, Project Server and client systems, in addition to helping the community constantly with articles, forums, videos and lectures about his passion: Microsoft Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. He has been speaking in large events such as MMS, Teched Australia, MVP Pro Speaker Series and many others and is the author of the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook. Leandro has been working as Microsoft trainer since 2006 and has obtained the certifications Certified Ethical Hacker/MCP/MCSA+M+S/MCSE+S/MCTS/MCITP/MCT and MVP. In 2009 he received the MCT Awards Latin America Trainer of the year and since 2009 the Microsoft MVP as a Virtualisation Specialist.

I always thought that writing my own book was a distant and almost impossible dream when I realized it could actually become reality when I was invited to write the first edition of this book back in 2012 which was a great success and accomplishment in my professional life. I also thought that would be it and I would never write another one again. So good to be wrong once more. This time I want to thank my wife Juliana and my son Eduardo. I love you both and I dedicate this book to you. Secondly I would like to thank Patrick Lownds and Charbel Nemnom for the amazing work of getting the book updated to the 2016 version. Thank you guys!

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Preface

Thank you for purchasing Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook – Second Edition. The book you are holding is the result of 15 years of experience in the IT world and over 10 years of virtualization experience that started with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC, and now Hyper-V. Virtualization is the keystone of any modern data center.

Hyper-V is a mature and widely adopted virtualization platform that is designed to work with both Windows and Unix/Linux virtual machines. In addition to being used by many of the largest companies in the world, Hyper-V powers Microsoft Azure public cloud, which is one of the largest cloud services in the world, and it powers Microsoft Azure Stack for on-premises and private cloud deployment including the support for both enterprise and service providers.

Our aim in this book is to provide you with the information you need to be immediately effective in deploying, migrating, and administering Hyper-V environments.

We hope that you'll get as much from reading this book as we did from writing it. Please be sure to post any questions, comments, or suggestions you have about the book in the Author Online forum. Your feedback is important to us in order to develop the best book possible in the future.

Charbel Nemnom

Patrick Lownds

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server, will provide all the information you need to know to install and manage Hyper-V in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server before, during, and after the installation to make sure that you can save time and solve any problems that you may face.

Chapter 2, Migrating and Upgrading Physical and Virtual Servers, will show you everything you need to know in order to migrate and upgrade any physical and virtual servers to make sure you have an easy and successful upgrade to the new Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.

Chapter 3, Managing Disk and Network Settings, will go deeper into the various configuration options for virtual machine disks and virtual networks so that you can select the best setting based on the applications you need to deploy.

Chapter 4, Saving Time and Cost with Hyper-V Automation, will show you how easy and user-friendly PowerShell is and how to create simple steps to make sure that your tasks will be done faster and with lesser work. It's very important to work more effectively and be able to automate processes and achieve automation in your day-to-day job.

Chapter 5, Hyper-V Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks, will ensure that you use the correct settings and apply the best configuration for Hyper-V. Best practices are a set of rules and tips created by Microsoft to help you identify problems, misconfiguration issues, and anything else that is generally not recommended. This chapter will also cover Hyper-V nested virtualization and graphics improvement in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, so you can virtualize any workload that requires high graphics.

Chapter 6, Security and Delegation of Control, will dive into how to configure Windows Update for Windows Server 2016 Server Core, Windows Server 2016 Server with Desktop Experience and Nano Server installations, access control using Authorization Manager and Simple Authorization, network protection with Port ACLs, virtual machine security with Secure Boot, disk encryption, shielded VMs, and Hyper-V auditing. Security is very important in any infrastructure, and this applies to virtualization and hybrid cloud computing as well.

Chapter 7, Configuring High Availability in Hyper-V, High availability is a key component for any workload you want to virtualize. The good news is that Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V comes with the right tools and high-availability solutions for almost all scenarios. In fact, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering are so deeply integrated in this release to make sure that they can respond appropriately for any transient failure you may encounter in your environment.

Chapter 8, Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V, will walk you through the most important processes to set up disaster recovery on-premises for your virtual machines running on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V. High availability is not disaster recovery. Natural disasters, fire, flood, viruses, data corruption, human errors, and many other factors can make your entire system unavailable, and not having the proper precautions in place could mean losing it all.

Chapter 9, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup for Hyper-V, There are several advantages why you want to. will discuss the advantages of reconsidering your on-premises Disaster Recovery plan and will walk you through the most important processes of protecting your on-premises investment by leveraging Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and Azure Backup, which is a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions offered by Microsoft Azure.

Chapter 10, Monitoring, Tuning, and Troubleshooting Hyper-V, will show you how to use the default tools in Windows Server 2016 to monitor your physical and virtual servers, how to troubleshoot, and how to tune your Hyper-V servers, so you can respond faster and start troubleshooting to solve any problems that may arise in your environment.

Appendix: Hyper-V Architecture and Components, will explain the most important Hyper-V architecture components compared with other versions including the Hyper-V client on Windows 10, Nano Server, and VMware vSphere 6.5, as Hyper-V is now a mature and widely adopted virtualization solution. It also includes the backup improvements as well as the new licensing model that has been introduced in Windows Server 2016.

What you need for this book

To follow along on what we have been covered in this book, we strongly believe in learning by doing, and therefore we highly encourage you to try out all of the technologies and principles we covered in this book. You don't need a huge server. For most topics, you could use a single machine with Windows Server 2016 installed and 16GB of memory, and by enabling Hyper-V-nested virtualization, you could enable a few virtual machines to run concurrently. Ideally, though, having at least two physical servers will help with the replication and high-availability concepts. With Windows 10, Hyper-V client is included in the box. So even without any kind of real server, it is possible to explore many of the Hyper-V technologies.

Who this book is for

This book is intended for anyone who wants to learn and master Hyper-V 2016 and take advantage of all exciting new features that Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V has to offer. If you have a basic knowledge of virtualization, it will be helpful, but it's not a requirement. If you are an architect, a consultant, an administrator, or really anyone who just wants better knowledge of Hyper-V, this book is for you as well.

Please note that in some chapters, we go into advanced topics that may seem over your head. In those cases, don't worry. Focus on the preceding elements that you understand better, and implement and practice them to nurture your understanding. Then, when you feel ready, come back to the more advanced topics and read them multiple times. Repetition is the key. The more you repeat, the more you understand better.

Sections

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently (Getting ready, How to do it, How it works, There's more, and See also).

To give clear instructions on how to complete a recipe, we use these sections as follows:

Getting ready

This section tells you what to expect in the recipe and describes how to set up any software or any preliminary settings required for the recipe.

How to do it…

This section contains the steps required to follow the recipe.

How it works…

This section usually consists of a detailed explanation of what happened in the previous section.

There's more…

This section consists of additional information about the recipe in order to make the reader more knowledgeable about the recipe.

See also

This section provides helpful links to other useful information for the recipe.

Conventions

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Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: After the conversion, copy the output vhd file to the Hyper-V server you want to import the virtual machine to.

A block of code is set as follows:

MB";Expression={$_.MemoryDemand/1048576}}, MemoryStatus

 

    Write-Output Updated Memory Demand $VMMemory

    }

 

}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Move-VM Win-2012R2-02 HV-Host-P01 –IncludeStorage –DestinationStoragePath D:\VMs

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: For the Configure Disk option, specify the VHDX file path and click on Finish to start the conversion.

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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Chapter 1. Installing and Managing Hyper-V in Full, Server Core, and Nano Server

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Verifying Hyper-V requirements

Enabling the Hyper-V role

Installing Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, and Nano Server

Managing a Server Core installation using sconfig

Remotely managing a Nano Server installation

Managing Nano Server using PowerShell

Managing Nano Server using Server Management Tools – SMT

Configuring Hyper-V post-installation settings

Introduction

Microsoft has done a great job with Hyper-V. Since its first version was introduced in 2008, the enterprises realized that it was a very good virtualization solution for a first release. The second version, released with Windows Server 2008 R2