Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation by Vinith Menon

By Vinith Menon

Manage, automate, and streamline your Hyper-V setting successfully with complex PowerShell cmdlets

About This Book

  • Explore the recent positive aspects in Hyper-V in home windows Server 2012 R2 and in addition learn how to automate them utilizing PowerShell
  • Take good thing about a variety of Hyper-V top practices for directors with re-usable PowerShell scripts
  • Implement your studying instantly with functional directions and examples

Who This ebook Is For

This e-book is excellent for directors who're new to automating Hyper-V management initiatives utilizing PowerShell. while you are acquainted with the PowerShell command line and feature a few event with the home windows Server, this ebook is ideal for you.

In Detail

Windows PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed particularly for process management. Hyper-V is Microsoft's hypervisor that creates and runs digital machines. Hyper-V for home windows PowerShell offers IT professionals with an effective way to permit automation of administration initiatives inside home windows Server. The Hyper-V PowerShell module contains a number of major positive factors that reach its use, enhance its usability, and let you keep an eye on and deal with your Hyper-V surroundings with extra granular control.

This publication explores the hot positive aspects made on hand with Hyper-V model three, and breaks down the secret and confusion that surrounds which function to take advantage of and whilst. It additionally teaches you the PowerShell method to automate using those gains. it's going to take you thru a couple of sensible examples to help you make the most of the Hyper-V model three cmdlets successfully. additionally, you will how one can use Hyper-V model three PowerShell cmdlets to put in and configure Hyper-V in a home windows Server atmosphere and in addition know about a number of the management initiatives intimately. you'll research every little thing you want to start with administering your Hyper-V setting utilizing PowerShell.

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VHDX –ShareVirtualDisk Finally, we will be making the disks available online and adding them to the failover cluster using the following command: Get-ClusterAvailableDisk | Add-ClusterDisk Once we have executed the preceding set of steps, we will have a highly available file server infrastructure using shared VHD files. Live virtual hard disk resizing With Windows Server 2012 R2, a newly added feature in Hyper-V allows the administrators to expand or shrink the size of a virtual hard disk attached to the SCSI controller while the virtual machines are still running.

VHDX –ShareVirtualDisk Finally, we will be making the disks available online and adding them to the failover cluster using the following command: Get-ClusterAvailableDisk | Add-ClusterDisk Once we have executed the preceding set of steps, we will have a highly available file server infrastructure using shared VHD files. Live virtual hard disk resizing With Windows Server 2012 R2, a newly added feature in Hyper-V allows the administrators to expand or shrink the size of a virtual hard disk attached to the SCSI controller while the virtual machines are still running.

Computername | Set-VM -AutomaticStopAction shutdown } Note The VMs need to be in the shutdown state to change AutomaticStopAction. The following screenshot shows this command: The command shown in the preceding screenshot sets the automatic stop action on all the virtual machines to shutdown. computername | Set-VMBios -StartupOrder @("Floppy", "LegacyNetworkAdapter", "CD", "IDE")} The following screenshot displays this command: The command shown in the preceding screenshot sets the virtual machine's startup order to an order that starts from a floppy to a legacy network adapter to CD and then IDE.

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