Chapter 3. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines
In this chapter, we will continue to explore the PowerShell cmdlets available in the Hyper-V PowerShell module to manage virtual machine infrastructure components. This chapter has been subdivided into smaller sections and we will be covering the following topics:
- Managing virtual switches and virtual network adapters in virtual machines
- Managing virtual machine migrations
- Managing virtual machine imports, exports, and snapshots
- Managing virtual machine backups with Hyper-V Replica
- Managing virtual machine connect
We will start by taking a deep dive into cmdlets, which can help us manage the virtual machine switches and network adapters; this will help us to understand the various ways to automate network configuration for virtual machines. Next, we will explore the cmdlets that allow a Hyper-V admin to manage virtual machine migrations across hosts and clusters. After that, we will explore cmdlets that allow us to export, import, and...