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Pass-through wired or wireless (Wi-Fi) NIC to VM using Hyper-V Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) in Windows Server 2016
Hyper-V Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) was developed for attaching (passing through) video adapters into virtual machines. This feature exists on other hypervisors (for example VMDirectPath I/O passthrough on VMware ESXi) for a long time and it is used to virtualize applications that can leverage GPU hardware. Such applications are used for example for scientific calculations […]
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Modify disk classifications in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) using PowerShell
Do you need to modify large number of disk classifications in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)? It is very simple in PowerShell. Get-SCVMHost -VMMServer MyVMMserver -ComputerName MyHyperV -OutVariable vmHost | Format-Table -Property FQDN, ProcessorModel $storageClassification = Get-SCStorageClassification -Name ‘My disk class’ Get-SCStorageDisk -VMHost $vmHost[0] -OutVariable hostDisk | Format-Table -Property Name, Classification $hostDisk | Set-SCStorageDisk […]
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PowerShell Tip – How to check number or cores, logical processors and Hyper-threading on multiple hosts?
It is very simple… Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Processor -CimSession host1, host2 | Format-Table PSComputerName, NumberOfCores, NumberOfLogicalProcessors
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Difference between Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers
There are two modes for the containers: Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers From a development perspective it does not matter because the only difference is a flag Hyper-V / Windows Server container. That is why I wrote two modes and not two types. Windows Server Containers vs. Hyper-V Containers Windows Server Containers Similar to traditional […]
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How to disable Virtual Machine Generation Identifier (VM Generation ID) on Domain Controller on Hyper-V 2012
What is VM GenerationID identifier? Very simple description of the VM Generation ID is that Generation ID is a protection of your Active Directory against restore of a checkpoint (snapshot) of a virtualized Domain Controller (DC). As you can imagine if you restore a checkpoint of a DC (you do not restore a backup, you […]