This is a script to quickly create a VM, mostly for tests
Quickly create a VM with 512MB Ram on local Hyper-V host
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New-VM -Name testvm01 -Path ‘C:VMs’ -MemorystartupBytes 512MB
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Quickly create a VM with 512MB Ram on remote Hyper-V host
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New-VM -Computername ‘hypervhostname’ -Name ‘vmname’ -Path ‘c:VMs’ -MemorystartupBytes 512MB
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Create multiple VMs on a remote host using a list.
Create a txt file with VM names, like this:
name
testvm01
testvm02
testvm03
The command:
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Import-Csv C:list.txt | foreach { New-VM -ComputerName ‘hypervhost’ -Name $_.name -Path ‘c:VMs’ -MemorystartupBytes 512MB}
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Pantelis Apostolidis is a Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft and an ex Microsoft Azure MVP. For the last 15 years, Pantelis has been involved to major cloud projects in Greece and abroad, helping companies to adopt and deploy cloud technologies, driving business value. He is entitled to a lot of Microsoft Expert Certifications, demonstrating his proven experience in delivering high quality solutions. He is an author, blogger and he is acting as a spokesperson for conferences, workshops and webinars. He is also an active member of several communities as a moderator in azureheads.gr and autoexec.gr. Follow him on Twitter @papostolidis.
