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Hyper-V Best Practices
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Hyper-V Best Practices

by Benedict Berger
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
4h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating virtual machines

You are all set, and it's time to create some virtual machines. To do a rapid deployment of virtual machines, we will rely on PowerShell.

Creating a new virtual machine with PowerShell is easy; just open an elevated PowerShell prompt, and run the following command:

New-VM

Without any additional parameters, this will create a new virtual machine with the default parameters. To create a new Generation 2 VM, run the following command:

New-VM –Generation 2

To create a new virtual machine with a specified name, a custom path to store the VM files, and a memory configuration, run the following command:

New-VM –Name VM01 –Path C:\VM01 –Memorystartupbytes 1024MB

Your newly created virtual machine doesn't have a hard disk yet. ...

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