Inject a Static IP Address in Ubuntu 18.04 on Hyper-V

By Cody Ernesti in hyperv on

If you didn't already know this, you can use the WMI class Msvm_GuestNetworkAdapterConfiguration and insert a static IP address into a Hyper-V VM. Ravikanth Chaganti provides a PowerShell script capable of setting a static IP on a VM. I slightly modified this to work on a remote Hyper-V host.…

How to Merge VHDS Checkpoint Files

By Cody Ernesti in hyperv on

Backstory - how I accidently made 3.5 TBs of data take up 5 TBs of space Ok, technically Veeam created the checkpoints on my VHDS due to a misconfiguration on my part. And I didn't notice that they were there for a few months. Oops. Until one day, I…