What this book covers
Chapter 1, New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2, explores the new features in Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 R2 and the associated cmdlets to manage these features.
Chapter 2, Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure, explores in depth the cmdlets that are available in the Hyper-V PowerShell module. This also covers cmdlets to manage properties of Hyper-V hosts, associated virtual machines, and virtual hard disks.
Chapter 3, Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines, covers cmdlets to manage virtual switches, virtual machine migrations, snapshots, and also Hyper-V Replica.
Chapter 4, Creating Reusable PowerShell Scripts Using Hyper-V PowerShell Module Cmdlets, takes a deep dive into how to approach various complex administrative tasks and explores solutions for them by developing PowerShell scripts based on the Hyper-V PowerShell module.
Chapter 5, The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM, explores the advantages of integrating Hyper-V with SCVMM and the additional Hyper-V cmdlets that come with SCVMM.
Chapter 6, Troubleshooting Hyper-V Environment Issues and Best Practices Using PowerShell, explores the PowerShell way to troubleshoot a Hyper-V deployment. It also looks at the BPA Hyper-V module that helps to make sure that Hyper-V is deployed as per the best practices recommended by Microsoft.
