Microsoft Hyper-V: VM generations, checkpoints, memory and keeping VMs available

Skills you'll practise

• Choose between generation 1 and generation 2 for a new VM and explain why the choice is permanent
• Choose the right checkpoint type, create, apply and delete checkpoints safely, and recognize unsafe practices
• Configure Dynamic Memory with suitable startup and minimum memory and explain when Smart Paging is used
• Distinguish live migration, failover clustering and Hyper-V Replica and pick the right one for a scenario
• Read Get-VMIntegrationService output and turn on the integration service a task needs

Course outline

1. 1.Microsoft Hyper-V essentialsVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Creating VMs: generation, memory and integration servicesLesson · 16 min
3. 3.Checkpoints done properlyLesson · 16 min
4. 4.Moving and protecting running VMsLesson · 18 min
5. 5.Microsoft Hyper-V: VM generations, checkpoints, memory and keeping VMs available: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
6. 6.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Microsoft Learn: Should I create a generation 1 or 2 virtual machine in Hyper-V?
• Microsoft Learn: Using checkpoints to revert virtual machines to a previous state (standard and production checkpoints)
• Microsoft Learn: Hyper-V Dynamic Memory overview
• Microsoft Learn: Live Migration overview
• Microsoft Learn: Hyper-V Replica overview
• Microsoft Learn: Manage Hyper-V Integration Services
• Microsoft Learn: Move-VM (Hyper-V PowerShell module)