Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fifth Edition

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Managing Hyper-V

This chapter covers the following recipes:

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

Introduction

Hyper-V is Microsoft’s virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Microsoft has made Hyper-V available in all versions of Windows Server 2022 and the Enterprise, Professional, and Education editions of Windows 11. Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 include Hyper-V as an option you can install.

Microsoft first released Hyper-V with Server 2008 and has improved ...