Hyper-V

#PSTip Monitoring Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) availability

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
26 Feb, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Recently, I was troubleshooting an issue related to CSVs going offline randomly. In that process, I had to detect when a CSV goes offline and then analyse a few log files to find the root cause.

Converting Hyper-V virtual machine disks from VHD to VHDX

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
25 Feb, 2014
- How to
- Hyper v

I’ve read recently a post by Hyper-V MVP Aidan Finn about a script he wrote to convert Hyper-V virtual machine VHDs to the new VHDX disk format.

#PSTip Controlling traffic of a VM network adapter in Hyper-V

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
24 Feb, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Using the Add-VMNetworkAdapterAcl cmdlet we can create ACLs (firewall-like rule) that applies to the traffic through a virtual machine network adapter.

#PSTip How to prevent a VM from becoming a Router

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
22 Feb, 2014
- Hyper v
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Similarly to the Hyper-V security feature discussed here, Hyper-V can also protect the environment from VMs pretending to act as Routers.

#PSTip How to prevent rogue DHCP servers in Hyper-V

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
21 Feb, 2014
- Tips and tricks
- Hyper v

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. In a DHCP environment, it is possible for a rogue DHCP server to respond to client DHCP requests and provide incorrect address and configuration information.

#PSTip VM Port mirroring in Hyper-V

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
17 Feb, 2014
- Tips and tricks
- Hyper v

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. In a physical switch environment, all traffic from selected ports can be duplicated and copied to a mirror port for capture and analysis, such as network diagnostic of a VM boot process or any …

Showing items from Hyper-V