Virtual Machines

What is DDA?

Discrete Device Assignment allows VMs to directly access PCIe devices themselves

What are the 3 steps to configure DDA for a PCIe storage device?

Set the VM stop action to shutdown, unmount the device from the system, mount the device to the VM

What is dynamically expanding memory?

Specifies a range of memory that can be assigned to a VM depending on its workload

What are integration services?

Drivers that allow the VM to interact with the host system

What is enhanced session mode?

Allows local resources to be redirected to a VM using a RD connection

What is the difference between generation 1 and generation 2 VMs?

Gen 1 is for older OSs and gen 2 is for newer OSs

What are the 2 kinds of VM resource groups?

VM collection group, management collection groups

What command do you use to create VM collection groups?

New-VMGroup -name name -GroupType

What is a CPU group?

A group of VMs that share a CPU usage cap

What are the 2 types of hypervisor CPU schedulers?

Classic, core

What command do you use to retrieve info about VMs?

Get-VM

What command do you use to start/stop a VM?

Start-VM, Stop-VM

What command do you use to create a checkpoint of a VM?

Checkpoint-VM

What command do you use to see all of a VMs checkpoints? How about deleting a snapshot?

Get-VMSnapshot, Remove-VMSnapshot

What command do you use to get info about a VMs vNIC?

Get-VMNetworkAdapter

What command do you use to update a VM to the latest version of Hyper-V?

Update-VMVersion