Here is a very useful script provided by Microsoft. With this PowerShell script you can create virtual machines by defining them in csv file. Script can be download from here.
Category: Hyper-V
How to Clone Virtual Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012–a guide by Tom Moser (PFE)
Tom Moser written a good step by step guide on how you can clone virtual domain controller. You can read it here.
Hyper-V Network Virtualization Packet Flow
Microsoft is providing free for download presentation on Hyper-V Network Virtualization Packet Flow. You can use that presentation to understand the topic. Download it from here.
VHDX Format Specification
For those who want to go deep in Hyper-V technologies they can do it by reading VHDX Format Specifications.
Free Whitepaper from Veeam on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012
Veeam is providing a free for download whitepaper on Hyper-V 3.0. The whitepaper is written by Greg Shields a Microsoft MVP and gives answers to 7 questions:
- Must your storage strategy evolve to meet Hyper-V’s new capabilities?
- Will VHDX impact your datacenter operations?
- Will SMB 3.0 and SOFS impact where you capture backups?
- Will your Hyper-V backups support deduplication?
- Is now the time to implement disaster recovery?
- Which is right for me: Multisite Clustering or VM replication?
- Is your site-to-site network sufficient?
Find out the answer to these questions by downloading the whitepaper from here.