{"id":3462,"date":"2013-06-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/05\/powertip-use-powershell-to-add-processors-to-virtual-machine\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-add-processors-to-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-add-processors-to-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Add Processors to Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to add processors to a virtual machine running on Hyper-V.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I easily add processors to my virtual machine?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Set-VMProcessor<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SET-VMProcessor -VMname &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; -count 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">This enables the virtual machine called &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; with two (2) CPUs&nbsp;(presuming the computer is already shut down and you have two processors to work with).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to add processors to a virtual machine running on Hyper-V. &nbsp;How can I easily add processors to my virtual machine? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Set-VMProcessor&nbsp;cmdlet: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SET-VMProcessor -VMname &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; -count 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This enables the virtual machine called &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; with two (2) CPUs&nbsp;(presuming the computer is already shut down and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,3,154,45],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to add processors to a virtual machine running on Hyper-V. &nbsp;How can I easily add processors to my virtual machine? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Set-VMProcessor&nbsp;cmdlet: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SET-VMProcessor -VMname &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; -count 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This enables the virtual machine called &#8220;My Virtual Machine&#8221; with two (2) CPUs&nbsp;(presuming the computer is already shut down and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}