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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

By : Vinith Menon
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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

By: Vinith Menon

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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation
Vinith Menon
Jan, 2015 | 124 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation
Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2
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
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
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
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
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
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:

  1. Open a PowerShell prompt in Run as Administrator mode:

  2. 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

  3. 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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