Hyper-V in new Windows Server technical Preview

So today Microsoft released their technical previews of Windows 10 and also of Windows Server

As an Hyper-V interested guy I wanted to check out some things in this build, there have already been a blog post about cool features such as rolling cluster updates so that you can have different versions in the Hyper-V cluster and keep the VM´s up all time during an upgrade.

There are some more info on the technet site discussing the different new features:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn765471.aspx

I downloaded the Windows Server technical preview from my MSDN and started the installation, it was really fast (and yes I have an SSD)

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In this screendump you can see that 5.0.9841.0 version of the PowerShell is included in the server technical preview

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And as you can see there is 182 cmdlets for the new Hyper-V PowerShell module

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After you have moved your 2012 or 2012 R2 VM´s you can update the VM configuration to the latest version but beware that once done that you cannot move those VM´s back to the old Hyper-V host.

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A new feature in this version is also that you can make snapshots (yea I still not like Checkpoint name) that uses VSS, and if that is not available it will fail-back to standard snapshots

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And still in this version you can via PowerShell enable Processor compability for those Windows NT server 😉

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When I get some more time I will dig some more into it and do a follow up post

happy testing!

 

PowerShell v5 September preview available

Today I was just checking my tweets and saw that the PowerShell team had released a new build of the Windows Management Framework v5, this time its the September build and it works only on Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 and if you have a previous version that was released in july of the v5 you have to uninstall that first and then you can install this version

here is a quote from the PowerShell team at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/09/04/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-september-2014-is-now-available.aspx

The following is a list of all the new scenarios enabled since May 2014:

  • Generate Windows PowerShell cmdlets based on an OData endpoint
  • Manage .ZIP files with new cmdlets
  • DSC Authoring Improvements in Windows PowerShell ISE
  • New Attribute for defining DSC meta-configuration
  • Use partial configurations DSC
  • Cross-computer synchronization through DSC
  • Get the current DSC configuration status
  • Compare, Update, and Publish DSC configurations
  • Audit Windows PowerShell usage by transcription and logging
  • Extract and parse structured objects out of string content
  • Extend the item noun to enable Symbolic Links
  • Develop with classes in Windows PowerShell
  • Register a PSRepository with PowerShell Get
  • Network Switch management through Windows PowerShell (improvements)

I used a Azure VM to test and install this version

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And once rebooted I can check via Get-Host what version I am actually running

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