Today I had to try and find a virtual machine given its MAC address on a non-clustered Hyper-V environment. Here’s a quick PowerShell script to do just that! import-module hyper-v $Servers = @(“server1”,“server2”,“etc”) $results = @() foreach ($hvs in $Servers) { Get-VM –Computername $hvs | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | select VMName, MACAddress ,ComputerName | foreach-object { $out […]
Change Hyper-V VM Memory “as fast as possible” – 60 Second Solutions
Hyper-V is amazing – you can do pretty much anything with a VM when it’s online now – even move it to an entirely new host with no shared anything. Apart from change the amount of memory in the VM! (Yes, I know about dynamic memory – still don’t like it. I’ve had too many […]
(System Center) Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Hyper-V, SMB shares
Ever seen this in System Center Virtual Machine Manager? Computername, Unsupported Cluster Configuration, Host Normally, it’s down to something silly like someone forgot to detach an ISO image from the CD drive when they were finished using it, but today I came across it in a different context. Server 2012 includes Hyper-V 3, which supports […]