Creating virtual machines

Once our Hyper-V Server environment is built and configured, we can begin hosting virtual machines on it. Creating VMs using the Hyper-V admin console is quick and easy if you only need to create two or three VMs. However, if you need to create more, or need to ensure the configurations remain the same, then PowerShell is the ideal tool.

In this recipe we will create and configure a new virtual machine on our Hyper-V Server.

Getting ready

For this recipe we need a functioning Hyper-V Server similar to the Hyper-V networking recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to create a new virtual machine:

1. Create the new virtual machine:

   New-VM -ComputerName HV01 -Name Accounting02 -MemoryStartupBytes 512MB `
   -NewVHDPath "e:\VM\Virtual Hard Disks\Accounting02.vhdx" `
   -NewVHDSizeBytes 100GB -SwitchName Production

2. Configure the system for dynamic memory:

   Set-VMMemory -ComputerName HV01 -VMName Accounting02 `
   -DynamicMemoryEnabled $true -MaximumBytes 2GB

3. Review...