Managing Hyper-V virtual infrastructure components is an integral part of a Hyper-V administrator's day-to-day activities. Performing these administrative tasks manually is time-consuming and leads to a reduction in productivity; replacing these repetitive tasks with PowerShell leads to better consistency (no typos or execution of incorrect tasks). This also helps a senior administrator delegate these tasks to other members in the team and audit the tasks performed by those individuals so that he or she can concentrate on other important tasks that lead to a better learning curve and improve the creative ability of the administrator to automate complex tasks.

In the current chapter and Chapter 3, Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines, we will explore the various PowerShell cmdlets in depth that can be used to automate these set of repetitive tasks performed by an administrator.

In this chapter, we will cover the following: