Managing Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V with PowerShell 3.0

Okay, now that we have gone through all the information about PowerShell and Windows Server 2012 enhancement for PowerShell, let's see how PowerShell can help us manage Hyper-V. Earlier, PowerShell's support for Hyper-V was not available in a direct way. What I mean by a direct way is that we didn't have PowerShell cmdlets for the Hyper-V role of Windows Server, but we had PowerShell support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It let us perform a few Hyper-V related tasks, but it was an indirect method as you had to automate and perform management tasks for SCVMM, which actually performed jobs for Hyper-V.

With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduced Hyper-V specific cmdlets for managing and automating Hyper-V related simple and complex tasks. An organization can use these available cmdlets and create its custom scripts to get the most out of Hyper-V automation.

Power-Shell 3.0 provides the possibility of end-to-end...