Hyper-V Core (with powershell): Shares & Disk management

Feb 22, 2018 | Virtualization

Mount Network Share

You can find the instructions here.

Simple
New-PSDrive -Name "P" -PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root "\\192.168.0.223\Backup"
With Credentials
New-PSDrive -Name "P" -Credential edafo.local\itmaster -PSProvider 
"FileSystem" -Root "\\192.168.0.223\Backup
With Credentials & Permanent
New-PSDrive -Name "P" -Persist -Credential edafo.local\itmaster 
-PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root "\\192.168.0.223\Backup

Remove Network Share

Get-PSDrive X, S | Remove-PSDrive

List All Mapped Drives

Get-PSDrive


Mount a VHDX file and access Virtual Machine disk


Mount-VHD <vhd path & filename>


Disk partitioning


Diskpart


List Disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 1862 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 1863 GB 18 MB *

select disk X
list partition
select partition Y
list volume
select volume Z
assign letter=D
exit


Dismount a VHD disk


Get-Disk
Dismount-VHD -DiskNumber 6