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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

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

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook

By: EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO, Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management platform. With System Center 2012, you can more easily and efficiently manage your applications and services across multiple hypervisors as well as across public and private cloud infrastructures to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.This cookbook covers architecture design and planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy, and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors: Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi, and Citrix XenServer. It also includes the VMM 2012 SP1 features.This book is a cookbook that covers architecture design, planning and is full of deployment tips, techniques and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2012 in a real world scenario. It will guide you to create, deploy and manage your own Private Cloud with a mix of Hypervisors : Hyper-V, Vmware ESXi and Citrix XenServer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Finding the command to automate tasks in VMM


This recipe will show you how to find the VMM PowerShell command to automate tasks in VMM. The Get-Help cmdlet not only displays information about the cmdlet, but it also displays references, examples of usage, and notes.

Getting ready

Start the VMM PowerShell command with administrator rights. For more information, see the VMM PowerShell overview recipe.

How to do it...

Help topics are provided for each VMM PowerShell cmdlet, including general examples.

To display a list of all of the VMM cmdlets, start the VMM PowerShell and use the Get-Command cmdlet:

PS C:\>Get-Command -CommandType Cmdlet

You can also use Get-Command to view all VMM cmdlets that contain specific nouns or verbs; for example, all related SCCloud commands:

PS C:\>Get-Command -Noun SCCloud

The result of this command is shown in the following screenshot:

Using the Get-Help cmdlet

To get more specific help, you can use the Get-Help cmdlet. For example, to view a help topic for the...