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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

Upgrading the VM configuration version


In the past, Microsoft would automatically upgrade the configuration version of the virtual machine, as part of the Hyper-V host upgrade process. However, Microsoft has now decoupled the upgrade process of the VM in Windows 2016, into a separate manual task, from the upgrade process of the host.

Note

Note, the configuration version represents the versioning of the VMs associated metadata, for example the VMs actual configuration state, any related saved state, and snapshot files.

By not automatically upgrading the configuration version, you can easily move a VM between different versions of Hyper-V. Now, if you need to move a VM bi-directionally between Windows 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016, you can.

Microsoft has committed to ensuring that if you choose not to upgrade the VMs configuration version, everything about the VM remains backwards compatible, including things like saved states and checkpoints. So what compels you to upgrade the VM configuration...