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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By : EDRICK GOAD
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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By: EDRICK GOAD

Overview of this book

Automating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating virtual machines


Once our Hyper-V Server environment is built and configured, we can begin hosting virtual machines on it. Creating VMs using the Hyper-V admin console is quick and easy if you only need to create two or three VMs. However, if you need to create more, or need to ensure the configurations remain the same, then PowerShell is the ideal tool.

In this recipe we will create and configure a new virtual machine on our Hyper-V Server.

Getting ready

For this recipe we need a functioning Hyper-V Server similar to the Hyper-V networking recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to create a new virtual machine:

  1. Create the new virtual machine:

    New-VM -ComputerName HV01 -Name Accounting02 -MemoryStartupBytes 512MB `
    -NewVHDPath "e:\VM\Virtual Hard Disks\Accounting02.vhdx" `
    -NewVHDSizeBytes 100GB -SwitchName Production
  2. Configure the system for dynamic memory:

    Set-VMMemory -ComputerName HV01 -VMName Accounting02 `
    -DynamicMemoryEnabled $true -MaximumBytes 2GB
  3. Review...