92. Manage VHD and VHDX files I didn’t like to talk to you about the concept of VR in VR HD eight X files now of HD video X. These are virtual hard disk files and of course they are needed in order to store information for your virtual machines. When you go to create a virtual machine, if I say new virtual hard drive or virtual machine, if I click next, I give the machine a name. But if I click through […]
90. Manage VM Checkpoints I now like to talk to you about a feature that can definitely be very helpful for us when working with Hyper-V, especially when testing things out and making configuration changes that can take a long time that you might perhaps need to revert. This a feature known as checkpoints. Now, checkpoints used to be called snapshots back in the early days of Hyper-V, and then eventually Microsoft changed the name to checkpoints. And essentially, it’s it’s basically the […]
88. Configure VM CPU Groups Now, I want to take some time and explain a concept to you, known as virtual machines, CPU groups. Now this feature was originally introduced in Windows Server 2016, and the goal of virtual machine CPU groups is to allow us to better control the allocation of our virtual CPU’s, our virtual central processing units. So, when you think about a server that’s going to be hosting virtual machines, you’ve got the physical motherboard and the physical processors […]
86. Understanding Discrete Device Assignment Now, another nice feature that we have with Hyper-V is it’s called DDA, DDA stands for discrete device assignment. So what is discrete device assignment? This a feature that originated with Windows Server 2016, and what it basically allows us to do is it allows us to give control over a hardware device such as a PCI Express device, a graphics adapter, you know, in the image stores, type device. Whatever it may be, we can pass that […]
83. Manage VM using PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell Direct, and HVC.exe OK now like to take a look at some different ways that we can remotely administer our virtual machines using PowerShell. So the first way that we can remotely minister our virtual machines using PowerShell is from the host computer itself. So here I am on the host computer that’s hosting the virtual machines. And if I wanted to run PowerShell and get into those virtual machines and run commands, I can use […]
81. Installing Hyper-V on a server and using nested virtualization It’s now time for us to learn about installing Hyper-V on a Windows server now in my little lab environment. I’ve actually got a client machine that is running Hyper-V, which you can have Windows 10. You could have Windows 11 that you’ve installed Hyper-V on. Keep in mind, I don’t provide any support for VirtualBox or any of that you. If you want to use VirtualBox to set some of this initial […]
78. Understanding Azure Automation for hybrid workloads One of the nice features that we get with Azure is the ability to do what’s called Azure Automation. Azure automation is going to consist of some different components and options that allow us to essentially automate certain processes, both in our Azure virtual machine environment as well as our on-premise environment. Now, the first order of business, though, for understanding this to understand some of these different components. There are various components that are going […]
73. Manage Windows Servers by using Azure Arc Now, one of the relatively new features that Microsoft has implemented in the Azure environment is a feature known as the ARK. Now Ark is a centralized management feature. What the goal of ARK is to essentially have like a single pane of glass that we have on Azure that allows us to interact with our on-premise servers and manage our on-premise servers, as well as manage all of our Azure service services, including not […]