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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

You're reading from   Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation Manage, automate, and streamline your Hyper-V environment effectively with advanced PowerShell cmdlets

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784391539
Length 124 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinith Menon Vinith Menon
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Preface 1. New PowerShell Cmdlets in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure 3. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines 4. Creating Reusable PowerShell Scripts Using Hyper-V PowerShell Module Cmdlets 5. The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM 6. Troubleshooting Hyper-V Environment Issues and Best Practices Using PowerShell Index

PowerShell cmdlets in integration with SCVMM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 has enormous PowerShell support. Every task that you can perform on the SCVMM console can also be performed using PowerShell. Also, there are some tasks in SCVMM that can only be performed using PowerShell.

There are two ways in which you can access the PowerShell console for SCVMM:

  • The first technique is to launch it from the SCVMM console itself. Open the SCVMM console in administrator mode and click on the PowerShell icon in the GUI console. This will launch the PowerShell console with the imported virtualmachinemanager PowerShell module:
    PowerShell cmdlets in integration with SCVMM
  • You can also import the virtualmachinemanager PowerShell module using the Import-module cmdlet. Launch the PowerShell console in an administrative mode and type the following command:
    Import-module virtualmachinemanager
    

    This will import the cmdlets in the virtualmachinemanager module for administrative use. As you can see in the following screenshot, if I execute...

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