Performing Virtual Machine Operations

This section presents how to enable, configure, and perform common and critical virtual machine operations.

Adding and Removing Virtual Hardware

Adding and removing virtual hardware to and from a virtual machine is a basic but important task for building a virtual machine that is suitable for its role in the network.

Adding virtual hardware to a virtual machine requires that the virtual machine is not running. You can edit the settings of the virtual machine in Hyper-V Manager (Failover Cluster Manager if the virtual machine is on a clustered host), and click Add Hardware. You can add several kinds of virtual devices to a virtual machine. Table 3-2 shows the available devices you can add and the PowerShell ...

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