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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787122048
Length 660 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Preface 1. What's New in PowerShell and Windows Server 2. Implementing Nano Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Windows Updates 4. Managing Printers 5. Managing Server Backup 6. Managing Performance 7. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2016 8. Managing Windows Networking Services 9. Managing Network Shares 10. Managing Internet Information Server 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Using Desired State Configuration

Configuring VM and storage movement

Hyper-V enables you to both move a VM and to move the storage for a VM to a new location. Moving a VM and moving a VM's storage are two important features you can use to manage your Hyper-V hosts.

With live migration, you can move a Hyper-V VM to a different VM host with no downtime. This works best when the VM is held on shared storage (via a fiber channel SAN, iSCSI, or SMB). You can also move a VM's storage (that is any VHD/VHDX associated with the VM) to a different location. You can also combine these and move a VM supported by local storage to another Hyper-V host (moving both the VM and the underlying storage).

In this recipe, you first move the storage for the VM1 VM. You created this VM in the Creating a virtual machine recipe and stored the VM configuration and the VM's VHD on the H: drive. To move the storage, you create...

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