One liner command to get VM list detail on Hyper-V Cluster

Command prompt

In this post, I will share a command to get the VM list detail that includes VM Name, CPU Count, IP Addresses, VLAN ID, and Memory assigned. The command includes the command below: Get-VM: This command gets the virtual machines from one or more Hyper-V hosts Get-ClusterNode: This command to gets information about one or … Read more

Hyper-V Live Migration error: “The operation is not supported”

Issue When you run the Hyper-V Live migration or move the storage location of the VM on the Stand-Alone Hyper-V server (Not Cluster), you got the following error: And In the Hyper-V-VMMS event log, there is the following entry: Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS Date: 7/29/2019 12:07:42 PM Event ID: 20923 Task Category: None Level: … Read more

Enable VM Replication

Enable VM Replication

Enable VM Replication on Hyper-V server will allows you to replicate a Virtual Machine from one of Hyper-V server to another Hyper-V server. There are some advantages by enabling the VM replication such as: In the event of failure to Primary Server (for example, Server failure, Power Outage or Datacenter Failure) you can easily to … Read more

Check VM Generation Version Hyper-V

Since Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft introduced a new VM Type called Generation 2 VM. There are some advantages using Generation (Gen) 2 VM such as Hot add/remove Virtual Network Adapter, Live expand the VHDX, or Secure Boot. However, still, there are some reasons why you still use Generation 1 over Generation 2. Below the … Read more

Get Hyper-V Data Exchange Service (Key Value Pair)

What is Hyper-V Data Exchange Service (KVP) Hyper-V Data Exchange Service is one of the Integration Services on Hyper-V that provides a mechanism to exchange basic metadata between the virtual machine and the host.  The data exchange service (KVP) shares small amounts of machine information between Virtual Machine and the Hyper-V host using key-value pairs (KVP) … Read more