Hyper V - manners

Ratan Mohapatra(created in Libre Office)

Tidy up virtual machines

~9 VMs each in 3 OS's = 27 !Disk SpaceClutter

Windows 8.1

Windows 10 Server 2012 R2

Tidy up virtual machines

By default, Hyper-V saves all the VHDs in a single folderand machines in another... !

Tidy up virtual machines- What I learnt

Put each machine in its folder Clarity Easy to manage

Microsoft's default

Tidy up virtual machines – but still there is something more

Use Differentiating Put each machine in its folder Clarity Easy to manage

Tidy up virtual machines – but still there is something more!

2. Use Differencing●Linked to a “Parent” disk●Saves only the changes you made●Does not affect the parent disk●Well, you can have several child disks or VMs from the same parent disk!

Tidy up virtual machines – Differencing disks

Joe's Assignment - 1

Not sure ifthat's what they do in VDI

Tidy up virtual machines – What I do now

Install one machine for each OS save them in a folder Build a VM for a project by creating differencing VHD(x) and linking to the parent disk

●Does not matter:●Which OS I am using (Win 10, 8.1 or Server 2012)●The children can have their privacy and transformation.... shhhh quiet our parents are sleeping!

Let's build some VM-transformers!