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Category Archives: hyper-v
Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 3. Using WOL to wake the lab on demand
Introduction In the previous blog posts we learned how to run scheduled tasks to save (hibernate) all running virtual machines and then power off the hyperv lab to save electricity. Next we added another task/script to resume all the previously … Continue reading
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Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 2. Starting the previously running vms after power on
Introduction In a part 1, I showed you how you can automatically power off your hyperv-lab using a scheduled task and Powershell, I modified the original script in that blog post to also write the current running VM’s to a … Continue reading
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Saving electricity in your home lab using Powershell – part 1. Automating graceful shutdown
Introduction I saw a tweet from well known Irish MVP Rory Monaghan here where he was explaining how he automates shutting down his home lab to save on electricity costs. I thought to myself that’s a great idea ! The … Continue reading
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Moving virtual machines from one hyper-v server to another ?
Introduction This week started off pretty badly for me, in that I attempted to repair a noisy fan on my Lenovo Thinkpad P1 (Generation 1) and sadly that went south very quickly. To cut a long story short, there are … Continue reading
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Introducing my new hyper-v lab – Lenovo ThinkPad P1
Those of you that were interested in Microsoft Ignite in Florida recently, would have probably noticed me tweeting ecstatically that I was delighted about receiving a Lenovo P1 from @Joe Parker (Principal Engineer, Manager at Lenovo). This was the culmination … Continue reading
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How can I backup Hyper-V virtual machines to Azure Cloud Storage using Altaro VM Backup
Introduction Any of you who read my guides, knows that I favor Hyper-V over VMware. I like the seamless integration with Windows and the fact that it comes built in to Windows 10. This blog post is about backing up … Continue reading
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How can I quickly create a Hyper-V Virtual Machine using PowerShell
Introduction This is an extremely quick post to help you create Hyper-V virtual machines using PowerShell. The script assumes you’ve already installed the Hyper-V feature in Windows. You can define a bunch of variables *highlighted in red below* such as … Continue reading
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