Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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Managing Hyper-V

In this chapter, we cover the following recipes:

• Installing Hyper-V inside Windows Server
• Creating a Hyper-V VM
• Using PowerShell Direct
• Using Hyper-V VM groups
• Configuring VM hardware
• Configuring VM networking
• Implementing nested virtualization
• Managing VM state
• Managing VM and storage movement
• Managing VM replication
• Managing VM checkpoints

Introduction

Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Both Windows Server 2022 and Windows 10 include Hyper-V as an option you can install, on all versions of Windows Server 2022, and the Enterprise, Professional, and Education editions of Windows 10.

Microsoft first released Hyper-V with Server 2008 and has improved it significantly with each successive version of Windows ...