So the parts arrived for my mini Hyper-V project. I have to say I’m really excited about this. Everything is so tiny! Here’s what I have to work with. I have the Brix unit, a 256GB mSATA drive, 16GB of RAM and a video adapter. The Brix unit is amazingly small and fits in the…
Tag: Hyper-V
Building a Mini Hyper-V Server
Since I work at home, I naturally lack the extensive IT infrastructure that you most likely enjoy. However I rely on a mix of virtualized machines delivered through an ESXi server and running Hyper-V on my Windows 8 laptop. The downside, is that even with 8GB or RAM and an SSD in my laptop, I’m…
Hyper-V Waiting to Merge
In my Hyper-V environment I have a test domain which I use for pretty much all of my training, writing and video work. As part of my “belt and suspenders” approach, I periodically take a snapshot of all the virtual machines using the theory that if I had to, I could roll back the entire…
Easy VM Backup with Veeam Zip
If you run a small VMware or Hyper-V setup, perhaps for a lab or personal training, you probably haven’t thought to much about backing up your virtual machines. But it is actually pretty easy and doesn’t cost anything. Let me give you a quick intro to the free backup tool from Veeam. The first thing…
TechDays SF Presentations
Last week I presented a number of sessions at TechDays in beautiful San Francisco. Met some great people and had a great time. I presented 4 talks, almost all of them PowerShell-related. Actually, they all had some type of PowerShell content. I’m happy to share my session slides and PowerShell demonstrations. Most of the demonstrations…
Test Hyper-V VHD Folders with PowerShell
I’ve recently added a USB 3.0 Express Card adapter to my laptop to provide USB 3.0 functionality. The added performance is very useful in my Hyper-V setup. However, I am running into a glitch that I have yet to figure out where the external drives (the Express card has 2 ports) are still attached and…
TechDays San Francisco
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at TechDays San Francisco this year. The event runs May 2nd and 3rd. You can find the schedule here. Registration will be forthcoming. Seating will be limited so you won’t want to delay once it opens up. As you might expect I’ll be talking PowerShell, plus…
Hyper-V ID Hash Table
In Hyper-V, one of the challenges (at least that I’ve run into) has to do with naming. In addition to a name, Hyper-V objects such as virtual machines, are identified with a GUID. Most of the VM-related PowerShell cmdlets will let you specify a virtual machine name. But sometimes you’ll run across the GUID and…
Importing Hyper-V VM from a PowerShell Backup
My Petri article this week is on importing Hyper-V VMs from a backup. http://bit.ly/PRE0pk I have many more articles on Hyper-V on Windows 8 on the site as well. You can find all of my recent posts here.
PowerShell Hyper-V Memory Report
Since moving to Windows 8, I’ve continued exploring all the possibilities around Hyper-V on the client, especially using PowerShell. Because I’m trying to run as many virtual machines on my laptop as I can, memory considerations are paramount as I only have 8GB to work with. Actually less since I still have to run Windows…
Hyper-V VHD Summary
When I made the move to Windows 8, one of my tasks was to migrate my test environment from VirtualBox to Hyper-V. Windows 8 includes a client Hyper-V feature that is easy to use and includes PowerShell support. Plus I needed to expand my Hyper-V skills anyway, especially from the console. After setting up a…