Category Archives: Hyper-V

Saw a question about getting the Hyper-V VM IP address. One thing with Hyper-V is that the VM has to be running for you to retrieve the IP address. Once you VM is running you can get the IP address … Continue reading →

I’ve always maintained that the most important thing about PowerShell is what you can do with it. This is brought out in my book – Pro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 – https://www.apress.com/gb/book/9781484241158 . My co-author and I describe how to create … Continue reading →

I’ve been working with Andy Syrewicze on a Hyper-V book that’ll be available in the next few months. https://www.apress.com/gb/book/9781484241158 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pro-Microsoft-Hyper-V-2019-Hands/dp/1484241150/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536253236&sr=1-1&keywords=Hyper-V+siddaway https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Microsoft-Hyper-V-2019-Hands/dp/1484241150/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536253327&sr=8-1&keywords=hyper-v+siddaway Its’s a rewrite and update of the Month of Lunches book I was working on a while back. Pleased … Continue reading →

I need to do some work on the Hyper-V switches in my lab so need to see which VMs are on which switch. Easier than I thought: Get-VM | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | select VMname, Name, Switchname

Its fairly easy to see how long a VM has been running – but how do you know the Hyper-V VM start time? In Hyper-V the VM uptime is easy to find PS> Get-VM | where State -eq ‘Running’ Name       … Continue reading →