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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Managing VM and storage movement

Hyper-V enables you to move a VM to a new VM host and move a VM's storage 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. Storage migration 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 (any VHD/VHDX associated with the VM) to a different location. You can 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 PSDirect VM. You created this VM in the Creating a Hyper-V VM recipe and stored the VM configuration and the VM's VHD on the H: drive. To move the storage, you create a new SMB share and then move the VM's storage to the new SMB share.

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