Microsoft Hyper-V from Microsoft Learn: VM VLANs, export and import, configuration versions, PowerShell Direct and virtual disks

Skills you'll practise

• Put a VM's network adapter on a VLAN in access or trunk mode and explain what the switch and NIC must support
• Export a VM and choose between register in place, restore and copy when importing
• Check VM configuration versions, decide when to upgrade them, and explain why newer VMs can't move to older hosts
• Use processor compatibility mode for migrations between hosts with different CPUs, and know its limits
• Run commands in a VM with PowerShell Direct and diagnose its common errors
• Choose Resize-VHD, Optimize-VHD or Convert-VHD for a disk task and meet each cmdlet's conditions

Course outline

1. 1.Hyper-V VM operationsVideo · 2 min
2. 2.VM networking with VLANsLesson · 16 min
3. 3.Moving VMs: export, import, versions and CPUsLesson · 22 min
4. 4.Inside and underneath the VMLesson · 22 min
5. 5.Microsoft Hyper-V from Microsoft Learn: VM VLANs, export and import, configuration versions, PowerShell Direct and virtual disks: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
6. 6.Final exam12 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: Configure virtual local area networks for Hyper-V
• Microsoft Learn: Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan (Hyper-V PowerShell module)
• Microsoft Learn: Export and import virtual machines
• Microsoft Learn: Upgrade virtual machine version in Hyper-V on Windows or Windows Server
• Microsoft Learn: Processor compatibility mode in Hyper-V
• Microsoft Learn: Manage Windows virtual machines with PowerShell Direct
• Microsoft Learn: Enable nested virtualization
• Microsoft Learn: Resize-VHD (Hyper-V PowerShell module)
• Microsoft Learn: Optimize-VHD (Hyper-V PowerShell module)
• Microsoft Learn: Convert-VHD (Hyper-V PowerShell module)