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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Configuring IDE and SCSI controllers


Every virtual machine on Hyper-V supports IDE and SCSI disks, each one having its own set of benefits, limits, and its own configuration.

It is important to identify when they are necessary, what their limitations are, and (most importantly) how to add and manage them as you will see in the following tasks.

Getting ready

By default, every virtual machine has two IDE controllers and one SCSI controller that can be used to add devices like virtual hard disks or DVD drives. You can use these steps to add a device, for example, virtual hard disk or attach a controller to an existing virtual machine.

How to do it…

The following steps show how to add devices and attach IDE and SCSI controllers to a virtual machine:

  1. To add a new controller for a virtual machine, open Hyper-V Manager, select the virtual machine on which you want to add a new controller and click Settings in the pane on the right-hand side (or with a right-click on the VM).

  2. By default, you can see the...