January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
11h 51m
English
book
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
by Charbel Nemnom, Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
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Adding and removing vmNICs
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V adds support for the hot-add and removal of virtual machine network adapters (vmNICs) to Generation 2 virtual machines. This feature is pretty self-explanatory but provides the added benefit of reducing the overall VM downtime due to the addition or removal of a vmNIC. In the past, to be able to remove a NIC, you needed to shut down the VM and incur downtime.
Getting ready
To hot-add or remove vmNICs, you can use either the Hyper-V Manager or PowerShell with the Add-VMNetworkAdapter or Remove-VMNetworkAdapter cmdlet respectively. Other than having a Generation 2 VM available to you to try this out on, no other options or features are required. You can simply go ahead and add or remove the vmNIC ...
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