Windows 10 Iot Hyper-v
Linda Berens
Pretty much everything associated with it. Hyper-V has things everywhere. You will also need to back up where ever the actual VHDs are. I would also do a backup from within the VM as well. Also, i would have your first run done after hours. Exporting the VM also works well. Never used windows backup for a HyperV server, but there could be a good chance if the IO is to high, it could pause the VMs. In the future, I would look at another solution such as Acronis or Unitrends
As this is the entire Virtual server I assume that includes all data files on the harddrive?
Then if there is a problem I can then just restore the VM.
The host Win2016 Server can easily be setup again if that died.
Yeap that should have you covered. But you will only be able to restore Virtual Machines, and not the files inside them. That would have to be done in a different way. You can always test the backups by building another physical blank Hyper-V host, and restore the VMS into that one. And then make sure that the VMS turn on and have all the working roles that you need.
But what you can do is create seperate iSCSI targets, then have each VM backup to its own iSCSI drive, so that you can do file level backups from there. Then if you need to retrieve a single file, you will do the restore from inside the VM itself.
I have Hyper-V installed on my Windows 10 pro machine and am running a Docker for Windows CE Edge version 17.03.1-ce-rc1-win3 (10625). I use the taskbar Docker switch function to switch between Linux and Windows container development but can only see a MobyLinux Hyper-VM in the Hyper-V Manager application. When I switch to Windows container development and run the hello-world app from a window container I see no Hyper-V VM for any windows OS in the Hyper-V Manager app.
My Windows 10 Pro has Anniversary Edition installed. So I am wondering whether this explains the absence of any Windows OS Hyper-V VM being shown in Hyper-V Manager (as there is for MobyLinux) after running the Hello-World app when in Windows container development mode (as set in DOcker taskbar applet). I do not believe there is a way for a Hyper-V VM to be created and run without it appearing in Hyper-V manager but I could be mistaken about that.
I run Windows as my daily driver but I use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) all day long but WSL is just the command-line and has some perf issues with heavy file system work. I use Docker for Windows which works amazingly and has it good perf but sometimes I want to test on a full Ubuntu Desktop.
To be frank, historically Ubuntu has sucked on Window's Hyper-V. If you wanted to get a higher (read: usable) resolution it would take a miracle. If you wanted shared clipboards or shared disk drives, well, again, miracle or a ton of manual set up. It's possible but it's not fun.
Why can't it be easy? Well, it is. I installed the Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update" - yes the name is stupid. It's Windows 10 "1809" - that's 2018 and the 9th month. Just type "Winver" from the Start menu. You may have "1803" from March. Go update.
Windows 10 includes Hyper-V Quick Create which has this suspiciously short list under "Select an operating system." Anytime a list has 1 or 2 items and some whitespace that means it will someday have n+1 list items.
I dig it. So click create, start it up...get to the set up screen. Now, here, make sure you click "Require my password to login." What we want to do won't work with "Log in Automatically" and you don't want that anyway.
Click OK and Connect...and you get this weird dialog! You're actually RDP'ing into Ubuntu! Rather than using the historical weird Hyper-V Client stuff to talk to Ubuntu and struggle with video cards and resolutions, here you are literally just Remote Desktoping into Ubuntu using integrated open source xrdp!
Here's an even better possible future. What we REALLY want (don't we, Dear Reader) is Dynamic Resolution and Resizing without Reconnection! Today you can just close and reconnect to change resolutions but I'd love to just resize the Ubuntu window like I do Windows 7/8/10 VM client windows.
Since we are using xrdp and that's open source over AND there's even a issue about this AND a lovely person has the code in their own branch and agreed to possibly upstream it maybe we can start using it and this great feature will just light up for folks who use Hyper-V Quick Create. Certainly we're talking weeks and months here (unless you want to help) but the lion's share of the work is done. I'm looking forward to resizing Ubuntu VMs dynamically.
Back to today! You can read about how Linux VMs (Ubuntu or Arch) are set up in this GitHub repo -vm-tools You can set them up yourself with scripts, but the nice thing about Hyper-V Quick Create is that the work is done for us to make these "enhanced session" RDP-friendly VMs. No need to fear, you can just read the scripts yourself.
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When Microsoft Hyper-V debuted in 2008, virtualization was just beginning to become mainstream. Not many people knew what it was, and even fewer understood what they could do with it. It all seemed conceptually complicated, risky, and challenging to implement and maintain.
Each vendor offers additional products above and beyond the base product, notably System Center from Microsoft and vSphere from VMware. These two product suites differ quite radically in most metrics and are difficult to compare directly. Here are a few noteworthy items where Hyper-V is the clear winner:
For purposes of this article, we will focus on the general benefits of virtualization and highlight the particular features that are found in Windows Server with the Hyper-V role or with the free Hyper-V Server.
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With the rapid provisioning and isolation features that are natural to Hyper-V, you can quickly design and deploy test and sandbox environments quickly. Disposing of them once testing has completed is even quicker. It makes testing patches, new applications, driver updates, and other tasks possible before rolling these into production.
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Of all currently available virtualization platforms, Hyper-V Server is one of the few that has no price tag, regardless of the feature set. All features of Hyper-V are available in even the free edition, including failover clustering, multi-path I/O, Hyper-V Replication, and no artificial limits on CPU or memory utilization. While Hyper-V Server features are free, customers are responsible for the guest OS licenses running in the environment. Overall, it still provides a cost-effective solution for running specific workloads.
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Client Hyper-V has one very important distinction among desktop hypervisors: it is a type 1 hypervisor whereas almost all others are type 2. A type 2 hypervisor is just an application that runs inside an operating system and is subjected to the same treatment as other applications, like Microsoft Outlook or a video game.
For your purposes, Client Hyper-V provides a much smoother performance profile than most competing desktop hypervisors. It also comes as a free, built-in component that requires no downloads, purchases, or separate update processes.
Microsoft has embraced the use of Client Hyper-V for other purposes, such as security, in the latest versions of Windows 10 & 11. In Windows 10 & 11, Microsoft leverages client-side virtualization technologies made possible by Hyper-V to instantiate Hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI). HVCI provides many security benefits, including:
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