Configuring hardware in your virtual machine is very much like configuring a physical computer. With a physical computer, you can adjust the CPUs and BIOS settings. You can also adjust physical RAM, network interfaces, disk interfaces and disk devices, and DVD drives (with/without a loaded DVD), and so on. Each of these physical components is provided within a Hyper-V VM and the PowerShell cmdlets make it simple to adjust the virtual hardware in a VM.
In this recipe, you adjust the VM's BIOS, CPU count, memory, add a SCSI controller, and finally create and add a virtual disk to the SCSI controller. Just like in most commercial grade physical servers, not all of these components can be changed while the server is running. You run this recipe from HV1 and turn the VM1 VM off before configuring the virtual hardware.
This recipe does not cover the virtual NIC which you need in order to use the VM in your network. Configuring the VM's networking is covered in the Configuring...
