Rebooting Hyper-V host

Hi

When the host server reboots all the services that control the VMs are also restarted so there would be no way to keep them running.

Its like asking if the VMs can stay running with the host server turned off.

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Is there anyway then to run a script that would first automatically shutdown the VMs, then the host and reboot the VMs automatically after the host is back up?

You really need to configure Hyper-V as a Cluster then you can migrate VMs between hosts, while they are still running, thus allowing to reboot the affected Hyper-V host. Otherwise, if standalone, you must shutdown the VMs first before rebooting the host server.

As far as i am aware when you do a scheduled reboot of the host it will automatically cleanly power down the VMs and then reboot and power them back on.

The best practice is to turn off every VM before any update of the VM-Host. Also is a good practice to update the VMs prior to host-vm. Also is a good practice to check if updating the vm-host w'ont have a negative influence of VMs functioning - updating drivers on host-vm can have a bad behavior of VMs virtual hardware

How and where would I schedule the reboot?

You will need to shutdown the VMs, to reboot the host.

This is my Live Migration, is beneficially, as you can move you Live VMs to another host, and then reboot the host, and patch via Windows Updates.

Have a look at this.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2896800

You could do 'Save State' which technically means there not turned off (but they are still offline). Other then that, the only way would be to live migrate to another host, patch and move back.