Category: Generation 2 Virtual Machines

• Moving a Hyper-V Virtual Machine Storage to a Cluster Volume using PowerShell.

  I have a Virtual Machine ADS00 running a guest OS WS 2012 R2 .It’s vhdx file is located on a Failover Cluster node physical server running Hyper-V Core 2012 R2. As the services offered and requirements for this VM continued to scale, we decided to migrate it to the Cluster volume and make it highly…

  jbernec

  March 16, 2016

  Failover Cluster, Failover Cluster Manager, Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Hypervisor Replication, Microsoft Hyper-v, Migration, PowerShell, Powershell 4.0, VHDX, Virtual Machines, VM Replica, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Cluster, Cluster Shared Volume, Failover Cluster, Move-VMStorage, PowerShell 5.0

• 23 Best Practices to improve Hyper-V and VM Performance

  Best practices are the most obvious starting point for improving your Hyper-V and Virtual Machine performance and I’ve listed 23 of them for you below. 1. Avoid overloading Hyper-V Server You must not overload Hyper-V Server. In other words, there is no need to host virtual machines which have no functions or I would say…

  jbernec

  July 11, 2014

  Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Microsoft Hyper-v, NIC Teaming, Virtual Machines, Windows Server 2012 R2

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster and Hyper-V Mini-Posters

  The following poster was just released by Microsoft to help shed some light on the features Gen 2 Virtual machines :

  jbernec

  October 16, 2013

  Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Gen 2 VMs, Hyper-v 2012 R2, WS2012 R2