April, 2012

You probably do not know who Eric Bahna is, but let me tell you why you want to.  Eric is a Senior Program Manager on my team who has been driving the development of Hyper-V’s PowerShell support for Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012.  If you want...

If you are evaluating the new Hyper-V PowerShell cmdlets in the Windows “8” beta – you may have noticed that the help is a bit bare.  Here you can see what you get if you run “get-help” on the Set-VMDvdDrive cmdlet: Just the parameter names and nothing...

Hyper-V provides one setting that you can configure for storage migration.  The maximum number of storage migrations you can have happening at the same time: By default this is set to “2”.  If you try to perform more than this – you will receive...

Yesterday I showed you how to perform an advanced storage migration with Windows “8” using the graphical user interface.  Today I want to show you how to do the same thing in PowerShell. Just like when we did a simple storage migration in PowerShell...

Over the weekend I noticed that one of my Hyper-V servers was running tight on memory.  I did not want to move any of the virtual machines off of the server – so I decided to reduce the memory buffer on each of my virtual machines.  At first...

A common question I get asked about storage migration is “how does it perform?” This question can actually be broken into two components: How long does it take to move the virtual machine storage? How does performing a storage...

A little while ago, I showed you how to do a simple storage migration with the Windows “8” beta release.  Today I want to show you how to use some of the more advanced options of storage migration.  With a simple storage migration you select...

A little while ago I wrote about how storage migration actually works . One thing I would like to call out is that the storage migration process is “copy and delete” and not “move”. Which is to say that just before storage migration...