For my MS Hyper-V home server I want to hibernate every day between 12.30 and 07.00 am. When the Hyper-V role is installed, it is not possible to use the hibernate function. The following steps make it possible to automatic hibernate the system and when it wake up, the Hyper-V service and the VM(s) are started.

Steps:

1. Download “PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V” file found here. Unblock the zone information from this zip, extract it and run the install file. Copy the content in the “HyperV_install” folder to

“%windir%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\HyperV”

2. Edit VM properties of all VMs. Set the Automatic stop action “Shut down the guest operating system”

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3. Edit the registy to disable auto start the hvboot service. When installing the hyper-v role the hibernate and sleep functionality is disabled.  There is no way to use the hiberate or sleep functionality while the Hyper-v service is running.  The Start property of a service can have the following values:

0=Boot  
1=System (default)  
2=Auto  
**3=Demand**  
4=Disabled

Set the value to 3, so that you can start the service when you want. 0 is not supported for hvboot. Information found here.

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Reboot the server so that the hvboot service is not started.

4. Create 4 schedule tasks to run every day.

Name	Time	Action
1.Reboot Server	12.30 am	shutdown /r t 30
2.Hibernate	12.40 am	shutdown /h
3.Wake Up	07.00 am	Under conditions select “Wake the computer to run this task”
4.Start HVboot & VMs	07.10 am	powershell.exe -command “c:\powershell\startvm.ps1”

The startvm.ps1 script contains the following PowerShell syntax:

import-module hyperv
start-service hvboot
start-vm -vm "Windows Home Server 2011"

Test if the schedule tasks are running fine by manually execute them and you’re ready to hibernate.