Manage Integration Services for Hyper-v

Integration Services is a software package that runs on a guest operating system, it is allow the virtual machine to communicate with the Hyper-V host, and it can improves integration between the host server and the virtual machine. The administrator can turn it enable or disable as needed.

You can to the selected  available components of the integrated service on the virtual machine. Select the Integration Services page in the VM Settings dialog box, then select or clear the check boxes.

Windows Server 2016 has six Integration Services components, all of which are enabled by default, except for Guest Services. The functions of the components are as follows:

Operating system shutdown：Enables administrators to perform shutdown of a VM without having to log on to it.

Time synchronization：Synchronize the clock on the virtual machine with the clock on the Hyper-v host.

Data exchange：Also known as key-value pair (KVP), that enables the guest operating system on a VM to share information with the Hyper-V host server operating system using the VMBus.

Heartbeat：Tell the Hyper-V host that the virtual machine has installed the operating system and started normally. The current state of the heartbeat signal is displayed on the Summary tab of a VM in Hyper-V Manager

Backup (volume shadow copy)：Enables administrators to back up a VM using backup software running on the host server. This type of backup includes the VM configuration, the virtual hard disks, and any checkpoints. The volumes on the VM must use the NTFS file system and have volume shadow copy enabled.

Guest services：Enables administrators to copy files to and from a running VM using the VMBus instead of a network connection. To copy files this way, you must use the Copy-VMFile PowerShell cmdlet.