Windows PowerShell 3.0 capabilities for Hyper-V

Okay, since we have now gone through the technical overview of PowerShell, and the enhancements made to PowerShell 3.0 for Hyper-V management and automation, let's proceed to the last section of this chapter. Here we will discuss the PowerShell 3.0 cmdlets for Hyper-V, or in other words, the capabilities of PowerShell 3.0 for Hyper-V management and task automation.

Now let's see the capabilities that PowerShell 3.0 provides for the management and automation of Hyper-V. For this assessment, we will see the following examples of PowerShell cmdlet usage for Hyper-V management and operations.

Note

To take a look at the list of PowerShell cmdlets for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, please visit the following TechNet URL:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848559.aspx

Example 1 – creating a new virtual machine

In this example we will create a new virtual machine on our Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V using PowerShell. We will first create a new...