# OpenNebula + Hyper V + Automation

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-hyper-v-automation/1871>\
**Category:** Integration Support\
**Created:** [February 29, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-hyper-v-automation/1871 "2016-02-29T17:31:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@wander](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/wander)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-hyper-v-automation/1871/1 "2016-02-29T17:31:10Z")

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Hi,

I am an absolute newbie on OpenNebula. I have inherited an infrastructure, where 10 Hyper V servers are scattered around hosting VMs.

I use Virtual Machine Manager to Manage all of them.

Can OpenNebula sit at the top of this layer for HyperV servers to automate provisioning VMs ?

Possible implementation cycle like this

1. Use Opennebula scripting interface to provision custom Base VMs on HyperV. Custom VMs in the sense, IP address, Netmask, Hostname preconfigured

2. Use Ansible/Puppet/Chef to provision apps on them

Does this sound crazy ?

Regards,

W

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**Author:** ![Astor\_Palmeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Astor\_Palmeira](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Astor_Palmeira)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-hyper-v-automation/1871/2 "2016-02-29T21:43:04Z")

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> [@wander](#):
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> HyperV

Hi friend, I think this is possible, according to Hyper-v(an old driver) and automation tools support:  
`http://community.opennebula.org/ecosystem:hyperv`

1. Opennebula Contextualization(vm/os customization):  
`http://opennebula.org/windows-contextualization/`

2. Automation:  
`http://opennebula.org/automatic-configuration-of-vms-with-puppet`  
`https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-knife`  
`http://opennebula.org/ansible-and-opennebula`

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**Author:** ![wander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@wander](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/wander)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-hyper-v-automation/1871/3 "2016-03-01T09:00:43Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Let me try hands-on at home Lab.

Thanks and Regards,

W

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**Author:** ![FrancJP](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/francjp/32/7690_2.png) [@FrancJP](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/FrancJP)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-hyper-v-automation/1871/4 "2025-06-25T16:06:01Z")

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