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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing VMM PowerShell


Windows PowerShell is based on object-oriented programming and the Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library. An object contains the following types of data:

  • Object type

  • Methods

  • Properties

VMM objects can be used to manipulate data and take specific actions. Properties contain information about the state of an object. Methods are actions that you can perform on the item that an object represents. Methods can return data.

Getting ready

To be able to use the VMM PowerShell module, you must first ensure that it is already installed.

Installing the VMM PowerShell module

In order to install VMM Windows PowerShell, you need to install the VMM console. If you have already installed the VMM console, you don't need to install it again. For more information on installing the VMM console, refer to the Installing the VMM console recipe in Chapter 3, Installing VMM 2012 R2.

How to do it...

Let's see how to start VMM PowerShell.

Starting VMM PowerShell

When you start the VMM command shell...