Powershell - Hyper-V - Give a custom name to a virtual network adapter
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Hyper-V by default gives the name Network Adapter to virtual machine network adapters.
This can make it difficult to identify their use, but this problem can be solved with Powershell, which allows you to change the names of virtual network adapters.
# Display the network adapters of a virtual machineGet-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName VM-01
# Rename the network adapter named Network aAdapterRename-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName VM-01 -Name 'Network Adapter' -NewName productionRelated links
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