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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

By : Vinith Menon

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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

4.8 (4)

By: Vinith Menon

Overview of this book

This book is great for administrators who are new to automating Hyper-V administration tasks using PowerShell. If you are familiar with the PowerShell command line and have some experience with the Windows Server, this book is perfect for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2

1. New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2

Installing and configuring Hyper-V using PowerShell

Fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell

Shared virtual hard disks

Live virtual hard disk resizing

The storage quality of the service feature

Virtual machine generation

Updated features in integration services

Updated features for exporting a virtual machine

Updated features in Hyper-V Replica

Summary

2. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure

2. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure

Extracting information about Hyper-V hosts and the associated virtual machines

Creating, deleting, starting, and stopping virtual machines

Configuring properties on virtual machines

Summary

3. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines

3. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Managing virtual switches and virtual network adapters

Managing virtual machine connections

Summary

4. Creating Reusable PowerShell Scripts Using Hyper-V PowerShell Module Cmdlets

4. Creating Reusable PowerShell Scripts Using Hyper-V PowerShell Module Cmdlets

Creating reusable scripts for virtual machine creation utilizing ODX

Creating reusable scripts for virtual machine live migration

Creating reusable scripts to manage export and import of virtual machine snapshots

Creating reusable scripts to automate installation of Integration Service in virtual machines

Summary

5. The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM

5. The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM

Why integrate with SCVMM?

PowerShell cmdlets in integration with SCVMM

Summary

6. Troubleshooting Hyper-V Environment Issues and Best Practices Using PowerShell

6. Troubleshooting Hyper-V Environment Issues and Best Practices Using PowerShell

Troubleshooting the Hyper-V environment using the event log

Troubleshooting the Hyper-V environment using BPA

The PowerShell community

Summary

Index

Index

Installing and configuring Hyper-V using PowerShell

Before you proceed with the installation and configuration of Hyper-V, there are some prerequisites that need to be taken care of:

The user account that is used to install the Hyper-V role should have administrative privileges on the computer
There should be enough RAM on the server to run newly created virtual machines

Once the prerequisites have been taken care of, let's start with installing the Hyper-V role:

Open a PowerShell prompt in Run as Administrator mode:
Type the following into the PowerShell prompt to install the Hyper-V role along with the management tools; once the installation is complete, the Hyper-V Server will reboot and the Hyper-V role will be successfully installed:
```
Install-WindowsFeature –Name Hyper-V -IncludeManagementTools -Restart
```
Once the server boots up, verify the installation of Hyper-V using the Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet:
```
Get-WindowsFeature -Name hyper*
```
You will be able to see that the Hyper-V role, Hyper-V PowerShell management shell, and the GUI management tools are successfully installed:

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