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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation: Manage, automate, and streamline your Hyper-V environment effectively with advanced PowerShell cmdlets

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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

Chapter 1. New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2

The Hyper-V PowerShell module includes several significant features that extend its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control and manage your Hyper-V environment with more granular control.

Various organizations have moved on from Hyper-V (V2) to Hyper-V (V3). In Hyper-V (V2), the Hyper-V management shell was not built-in and the PowerShell module had to be manually installed. In Hyper-V (V3), Microsoft has provided an exhaustive set of cmdlets that can be used to manage and automate all configuration activities of the Hyper-V environment. The cmdlets are executed across the network using Windows Remote Management.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • The basics of setting up a Hyper-V environment using PowerShell
  • The fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell
  • The updated features in Hyper-V

Here is a list of all the new features introduced in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. We will be going in depth through the important changes that have come into the Hyper-V PowerShell module with the following features and functions:

  • Shared virtual hard disk
  • Resizing the live virtual hard disk
  • Installing and configuring your Hyper-V environment

Installing and configuring Hyper-V using PowerShell

Before you proceed with the installation and configuration of Hyper-V, there are some prerequisites that need to be taken care of:

  • The user account that is used to install the Hyper-V role should have administrative privileges on the computer
  • There should be enough RAM on the server to run newly created virtual machines

Once the prerequisites have been taken care of, let's start with installing the Hyper-V role:

  1. Open a PowerShell prompt in Run as Administrator mode:
    Installing and configuring Hyper-V using PowerShell
  2. Type the following into the PowerShell prompt to install the Hyper-V role along with the management tools; once the installation is complete, the Hyper-V Server will reboot and the Hyper-V role will be successfully installed:
    Install-WindowsFeature –Name Hyper-V -IncludeManagementTools -Restart
  3. Once the server boots up, verify the installation of Hyper-V using the Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet:
    Get-WindowsFeature -Name hyper*

    You will be able to see that the Hyper-V role, Hyper-V PowerShell management shell, and the GUI management tools are successfully installed:

    Installing and configuring Hyper-V using PowerShell

Fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell

In this section, we will look at some of the fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell. Once you get the Hyper-V role installed as per the steps illustrated in the previous section, a PowerShell module to manage your Hyper-V environment will also get installed. Now, perform the following steps:

  1. Open a PowerShell prompt in the Run as Administrator mode.
  2. PowerShell uses cmdlets that are built using a verb-noun naming system (for more details, refer to Learning Windows PowerShell Names at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315315.aspx). Type the following command into the PowerShell prompt to get a list of all the cmdlets in the Hyper-V PowerShell module:
    Get-Command -Module Hyper-V

    Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 ships with about 178 cmdlets. These cmdlets allow a Hyper-V administrator to handle very simple, basic tasks to advanced ones such as setting up a Hyper-V replica for virtual machine disaster recovery.

  3. To get the count of all the available Hyper-V cmdlets, you can type the following command in PowerShell:
    Get-Command -Module Hyper-V | Measure-Object

    The Hyper-V PowerShell cmdlets follow a very simple approach and are very user friendly. The cmdlet name itself indirectly communicates with the Hyper-V administrator about its functionality. The following screenshot shows the output of the Get command:

    Fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell

    For example, in the following screenshot, the Remove-VMSwitch cmdlet itself says that it's used to delete a previously created virtual machine switch:

    Fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell
  4. If the administrator is still not sure about the task that can be performed by the cmdlet, he or she can get help with detailed examples using the Get-Help cmdlet. To get help on the cmdlet type, type the cmdlet name in the prescribed format. To make sure that the latest version of help files are installed on the server, run the Update-Help cmdlet before executing the following cmdlet:
    Get-Help <Hyper-V cmdlet> -Full

    The following screenshot is an example of the Get-Help cmdlet:

    Fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell

Shared virtual hard disks

This new and improved feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 allows an administrator to share a virtual hard disk file (the .vhdx file format) between multiple virtual machines. These .vhdx files can be used as shared storage for a failover cluster created between virtual machines (also known as guest clustering). A shared virtual hard disk allows you to create data disks and witness disks using .vhdx files with some advantages:

  • Shared disks are ideal for SQL database files and file servers
  • Shared disks can be run on generation 1 and generation 2 virtual machines

This new feature allows you to save on storage costs and use the .vhdx files for guest clustering, enabling easier deployment rather than using virtual Fibre Channel or Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), which are complicated and require storage configuration changes such as zoning and Logic Unit Number (LUN) masking.

In Windows Server 2012 R2, virtual iSCSI disks (both shared and unshared virtual hard disk files) show up as virtual SAS disks when you add an iSCSI hard disk to a virtual machine. Shared virtual hard disks (.vhdx ) files can be placed on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) or a Scale-Out File Server cluster

Let's look at the ways you can automate and manage your shared .vhdx guest clustering configuration using PowerShell. In the following example, we will demonstrate how you can create a two-node file server cluster using the shared VHDX feature. After that, let's set up a testing environment within which we can start learning these new features. The steps are as follows:

  1. We will start by creating two virtual machines each with 50 GB OS drives, which contains a sysprep image of Windows Server 2012 R2. Each virtual machine will have 4 GB RAM and four virtual CPUs.

    Note

    D:\vhd\base_1.vhdx and D:\vhd\base_2.vhdx are already existing VHDX files with sysprepped image of Windows Server 2012 R2.

    The following code is used to create two virtual machines:

    New-VM –Name "Fileserver_VM1" –MemoryStartupBytes 4GB –NewVHDPath d:\vhd\base_1.vhdx -NewVHDSizeBytes 50GB

New-VM –Name "Fileserver_VM2" –MemoryStartupBytes 4GB –NewVHDPath d:\vhd\base_2.vhdx -NewVHDSizeBytes 50GB
  2. Next, we will install the file server role and configure a failover cluster on both the virtual machines using PowerShell.

    Note

    You need to enable PowerShell remoting on both the file servers and also have them joined to a domain.

    The following is the code:

    Install-WindowsFeature -computername Fileserver_VM1 File-Services, FS-FileServer, Failover-Clustering

Install-WindowsFeature -computername Fileserver_VM1 RSAT-Clustering –IncludeAllSubFeature

Install-WindowsFeature -computername Fileserver_VM2 File-Services, FS-FileServer, Failover-Clustering

Install-WindowsFeature -computername Fileserver_VM2 RSAT-Clustering -IncludeAllSubFeature
  3. Once we have the virtual machines created and the file server and failover clustering features installed, we will create the failover cluster as per Microsoft's best practices using the following set of cmdlets:
    New-Cluster -Name Cluster1 -Node FileServer_VM1, FileServer_VM2 -StaticAddress 10.0.0.59 -NoStorage –Verbose

    You will need to choose a name and IP address that fits your organization.

  4. Next, we will create two vhdx files named sharedvhdx_data.vhdx (which will be used as a data disk) and sharedvhdx_quorum.vhdx (which will be used as the quorum or the witness disk). To do this, the following commands need to be run on the Hyper-V cluster:
    New-VHD -Path c:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\sharedvhdx_data.VHDX -Fixed -SizeBytes 10GB

New-VHD -Path c:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\sharedvhdx_quorum.VHDX -Fixed -SizeBytes 1GB
  5. Once we have created these virtual hard disk files, we will add them as shared .vhdx files. We will attach these newly created VHDX files to the Fileserver_VM1 and Fileserver_VM2 virtual machines and specify the parameter-shared VHDX files for guest clustering:
    Add-VMHardDiskDrive –VMName Fileserver_VM1 -Path c:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\sharedvhdx_data.VHDX –ShareVirtualDisk

Add-VMHardDiskDrive –VMName Fileserver_VM2 -Path c:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\sharedvhdx_data.VHDX –ShareVirtualDisk
  6. 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.

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This book is great for administrators who are new to automating Hyper-V administration tasks using PowerShell. If you are familiar with the PowerShell command line and have some experience with the Windows Server, this book is perfect for you.

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This book is great for administrators who are new to automating Hyper-V administration tasks using PowerShell. If you are familiar with the PowerShell command line and have some experience with the Windows Server, this book is perfect for you.

What you will learn

  • Understand and optimize the new features of HyperV on Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Install and configure your HyperV environment on a Windows Server environment using PowerShell
  • Extract information about HyperV hosts and the associated virtual machines
  • Create, delete, start, and stop virtual machines and configure their properties
  • Utilize HyperV PowerShell module cmdlets to create reusable PowerShell scripts
  • Integrate your HyperV environment for enterpriselevel management using SCVMM to create and manage private clouds
  • Troubleshoot your HyperV environment with PowerShell and custom scripts

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1. New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2
Installing and configuring Hyper-V using PowerShell
Fundamental concepts of Hyper-V management with the Hyper-V management shell
Shared virtual hard disks
Live virtual hard disk resizing
The storage quality of the service feature
Virtual machine generation
Updated features in integration services
Updated features for exporting a virtual machine
Updated features in Hyper-V Replica
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2. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure
Extracting information about Hyper-V hosts and the associated virtual machines
Creating, deleting, starting, and stopping virtual machines
Configuring properties on virtual machines
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3. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Managing virtual switches and virtual network adapters
Managing virtual machine connections
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4. Creating Reusable PowerShell Scripts Using Hyper-V PowerShell Module Cmdlets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Creating Reusable PowerShell Scripts Using Hyper-V PowerShell Module Cmdlets
Creating reusable scripts for virtual machine creation utilizing ODX
Creating reusable scripts for virtual machine live migration
Creating reusable scripts to manage export and import of virtual machine snapshots
Creating reusable scripts to automate installation of Integration Service in virtual machines
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5. The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM
Why integrate with SCVMM?
PowerShell cmdlets in integration with SCVMM
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6. Troubleshooting Hyper-V Environment Issues and Best Practices Using PowerShell Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Troubleshooting Hyper-V Environment Issues and Best Practices Using PowerShell
Troubleshooting the Hyper-V environment using the event log
Troubleshooting the Hyper-V environment using BPA
The PowerShell community
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I'm MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) in Cluster, and constantly work with some automation in powershell. This book is a great reference source for that is beginning to work with Hyper-V and want to automate manual processes. Or even for those who already have some knowledge and have consultations on how to work with the powershell + Hyper-V.As always, Packt produces great books and I recommend it. Always carry on my Kindle;)
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I will call myself a PowerUser of PowerShell, but also this book showed my some new stuff.The Book is focused on PowerShell about HyperV and the Automation of it. Also the finest Details has been covered and explained very simple and clearly.I realy like this book and can recommend it.
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As a novice PowerShell user I think this book will provide even the beginners of PowerShell a very good starting point. Great tips and clear explanations this book will provide you with the necessary steps and information to manage a Hyper-V environment. Loads of tips and screenshots to make it more clear to the reader.Great book to have on your digital shelve for administrating your Hyper-V environment. A must have for IT admins :).
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PowerShell and Hyper-V. You won't find two technologies that need each other more than these. In fact, it seems as if PowerShell was created for Hyper-V! I use both technologies on a regular basis, but I wouldn't claim to be an expert in either so I decided to have a look at this title. The main focus is on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2, as it should be. There's no point in running Hyper-V on an earlier operating system. The book provides details on the creation and management of virtual machines that any systems administrator can benefit from. This includes, creating and managing snapshots, virtual hard disk management, live migration, and virtual networking. The book also touches on the topic of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and how to create scripts to ease management and implement automation. Definitely a good read. I'll caution you that some of the commands aren't written in text, but rather shown in a graphic. If you're reading this on a smaller Kindle they can be very difficult to see. Recommend using a large Kindle, tablet, or buying the print edition instead.
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Vinith Menon has extensive experience in the IT industry. At the beginning of his career, he was working with a leading consulting firm as a senior systems engineer managing Windows Server and the VMware virtualization environment. He was also extensively involved in automation using scripting. Later, he worked with another platinum-level consulting company as a senior software engineer and managed Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp environments for Avanade using PowerShell scripting. Vinith has done automation for tasks that earlier required manual work using Opalis and integrated them with PowerShell scripting. He has also built integration packs using PowerShell for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator. He has extensive knowledge of Hyper-V and the management of virtual machine environments using System Center Virtual Machine Manager. He has in-depth technical expertise in PowerShell scripting, Active Directory, server administration, and network management. Vinith is now part of Microsoft Business Unit Technology Evangelism with NetApp. At the moment, he is interested in the automation of various PowerShell scripting, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, Microsoft Exchange, and System Center technologies such as SCSM, SCOM, and SCORCH 2012. As a subject matter expert of Hyper-V and PowerShell, he blogs and supports the NetApp PowerShell community. Vinith is very passionate about automation and PowerShell scripting. You can find him frequently blogging about virtualization, PowerShell, and all automation-related information that deals with Microsoft System Center, Windows Server, and client operating systems. He is also an active member of the PowerShell Bangalore User Group and loves sharing his knowledge with like-minded techies.
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  2. Search for the title by name or ISBN using the search option.
  3. Select the title you want to purchase.
  4. Choose the format you wish to purchase the title in; if you order the Print Book, you get a free eBook copy of the same title. 
  5. Proceed with the checkout process (payment to be made using Credit Card, Debit Cart, or PayPal)
Where can I access support around an eBook? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
  • If you experience a problem with using or installing Adobe Reader, the contact Adobe directly.
  • To view the errata for the book, see www.packtpub.com/support and view the pages for the title you have.
  • To view your account details or to download a new copy of the book go to www.packtpub.com/account
  • To contact us directly if a problem is not resolved, use www.packtpub.com/contact-us
What eBook formats do Packt support? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Our eBooks are currently available in a variety of formats such as PDF and ePubs. In the future, this may well change with trends and development in technology, but please note that our PDFs are not Adobe eBook Reader format, which has greater restrictions on security.

You will need to use Adobe Reader v9 or later in order to read Packt's PDF eBooks.

What are the benefits of eBooks? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
  • You can get the information you need immediately
  • You can easily take them with you on a laptop
  • You can download them an unlimited number of times
  • You can print them out
  • They are copy-paste enabled
  • They are searchable
  • There is no password protection
  • They are lower price than print
  • They save resources and space
What is an eBook? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Packt eBooks are a complete electronic version of the print edition, available in PDF and ePub formats. Every piece of content down to the page numbering is the same. Because we save the costs of printing and shipping the book to you, we are able to offer eBooks at a lower cost than print editions.

When you have purchased an eBook, simply login to your account and click on the link in Your Download Area. We recommend you saving the file to your hard drive before opening it.

For optimal viewing of our eBooks, we recommend you download and install the free Adobe Reader version 9.