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Free Script: Find Orphaned Hyper-V VM Files

If you’ve had very much virtual machine churn in your environment, it’s almost inevitable that you’ve wound up with a few disconnected virtual machine files here and there. This free script will help...

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The Hyper-V Portal 2014 Year in Review

Like any creative work, a blog post is never really done; it’s just abandoned. Unlike many other mediums, blogs do allow us to easily refresh those older articles, but we so rarely ever do it. To close...

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How To Take a Checkpoint in Hyper-V

Checkpoints (known as “Snapshots” in previous versions), provide something similar to an “Undo” capability to Hyper-V virtual machines. With a Hyper-V checkpoint, everything about a virtual machine is...

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PowerShell & Hyper-V: Finding the Parents of a Differencing VHD

We’ve had quite a few posts about Hyper-V checkpoints lately (formerly snapshots). We also spend a fair bit of time warning people not to tinker with them manually. There are still those people that...

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How to Delete Hyper-V Checkpoints

Last week we explored how to implement Hyper-V checkpoints correctly, and why they are used. Eric is back with a guide on how you can delete checkpoints when you are happy with the state of your...

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Hyper-V Differencing Disks Explained

Differencing disks contain block data that represents changes to a parent virtual hard disk, check out this comprehensive guide if you’re running Hyper-V! Read the post here: Hyper-V Differencing Disks...

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Confusing Terms and Concepts in Hyper-V

Hyper-V is a great Microsoft product, but in some instances it uses very confusing terms and concepts. Here we break down and explain some of these terms. Read the post here: Confusing Terms and...

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Manage all your Hyper-V snapshots with PowerShell

Nirmal Sharma It’s much easier to manage Hyper-V snapshots using PowerShell than a GUI because PowerShell offers the greater… “; } }); /** * remove unnecessary class from ul */...

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