Chapter 1, New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2, explores the new features in Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 R2 and the associated cmdlets to manage these features.

Chapter 2, Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure, explores in depth the cmdlets that are available in the Hyper-V PowerShell module. This also covers cmdlets to manage properties of Hyper-V hosts, associated virtual machines, and virtual hard disks.

Chapter 3, Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines, covers cmdlets to manage virtual switches, virtual machine migrations, snapshots, and also Hyper-V Replica.

Chapter 4, Creating Reusable PowerShell Scripts Using Hyper-V PowerShell Module Cmdlets, takes a deep dive into how to approach various complex administrative tasks and explores solutions for them by developing PowerShell scripts based on the Hyper-V PowerShell module.

Chapter 5, The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM, explores the advantages of integrating Hyper-V with SCVMM and the additional Hyper-V cmdlets that come with SCVMM.

Chapter 6, Troubleshooting Hyper-V Environment Issues and Best Practices Using PowerShell, explores the PowerShell way to troubleshoot a Hyper-V deployment. It also looks at the BPA Hyper-V module that helps to make sure that Hyper-V is deployed as per the best practices recommended by Microsoft.

This book requires that you have Windows PowerShell 3.0, which is available out of the box in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. The latter has the Hyper-V role enabled on it. Windows PowerShell 3.0 is also available for earlier versions of Windows as part of Microsoft's Windows Management Framework 3.0. You should also have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 with you.

This book is great for administrators who are new to automating Hyper-V administrative 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.

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Let's look at the ways you can automate and manage your shared .vhdx guest clustering configuration using PowerShell."

A block of code is set as follows:

$Guid = [System.Guid]::NewGuid()
Set-SCCloud -JobGroup $Guid
$HostGroup = Get-SCVMHostGroup -Name "HostGroup02"
New-SCCloud -JobGroup $Guid -Name "Cloud02" -VMHostGroup $HostGroup -Description "This is a cloud for HostGroup02"

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Copy-VMFile "Fileserver_VM1" -SourcePath "D:\Test.txt" -DestinationPath "C:\Temp\Test.txt" -CreateFullPath -FileSource Host

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Next, click on Shrink."

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