Creating and managing VM groups in Hyper-V is a pretty straightforward process, and honestly, it makes our lives a lot easier when dealing with multiple virtual machines. So, I'll break it down for you in a friendly way.
First off, when you want to create VM groups, you typically start in Hyper-V Manager, which is your go-to tool for managing your VMs. Once you're in there, you can see all your listings and the different virtual machines you've got going on. You can't really create a tree view grouping, unless you purchase SCVMM, and that's not cheap. However, the simple solution is to sort the VMs by name and then prefix the name of the VM with the desired group name.
You can also use the same strategy to run backups of your grouped VMs. In BackupChain you can configure automatic Hyper-V backup selection of VMs based on their name. You simply define a group name, such as Production or Test, and then configure BackupChain to back up only VMs starting with Production. Conversely you could omit just the ones starting with Test. Example: Production_WindowsServer2022_Exchange and Test_Windows7.
I hope my post was useful. Are you new to Hyper-V and do you have a good Hyper-V backup solution? See my other post
First off, when you want to create VM groups, you typically start in Hyper-V Manager, which is your go-to tool for managing your VMs. Once you're in there, you can see all your listings and the different virtual machines you've got going on. You can't really create a tree view grouping, unless you purchase SCVMM, and that's not cheap. However, the simple solution is to sort the VMs by name and then prefix the name of the VM with the desired group name.
You can also use the same strategy to run backups of your grouped VMs. In BackupChain you can configure automatic Hyper-V backup selection of VMs based on their name. You simply define a group name, such as Production or Test, and then configure BackupChain to back up only VMs starting with Production. Conversely you could omit just the ones starting with Test. Example: Production_WindowsServer2022_Exchange and Test_Windows7.
I hope my post was useful. Are you new to Hyper-V and do you have a good Hyper-V backup solution? See my other post
