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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
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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

Creating reusable scripts for virtual machine creation utilizing ODX

Using the core virtual machine cmdlets included in Hyper-V PowerShell, we can automate the process of virtual machine creation. With Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2, we can speed up the process of virtual machine provisioning utilizing ODX, so let's look at what exactly ODX is.

ODX is a new technology feature supported by the latest Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 operating systems that offloads the standard copy operations from Windows networks to the underlying storage system. For example, a virtual hard disk, when copied over the network for a virtual machine provisioning process, would take hours to complete the copy process depending on the virtual hard disk size as the copy process takes place over the network.

ODX is enabled by default in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. You can check whether it's enabled or disabled using...

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