Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

Vinith Menon

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781784391539
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Networking
• Index: Computer Science

Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

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Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

Expanding the virtual hard disk

Resizing the virtual hard disk

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

Summary

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

Creating a virtual machine

Deleting a virtual machine

Starting and stopping a virtual machine

Configuring properties on virtual machines

Managing VHDs on virtual machines

Summary

3. Managing Your Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Managing virtual switches and virtual network adapters

Managing a virtual machine's migration networks

Configuring virtual machine network adapters with a virtual switch

Configuring virtual machine network failover settings

Adding, removing, and renaming virtual machine network adapters

Configuring a virtual machine's network adapter VLANs

Configuring Hyper-V virtual switches and their properties

Creating and removing Hyper-V virtual switches

Managing virtual machine migrations

Managing virtual machine imports, exports, and snapshots

Importing and exporting virtual machines

Managing virtual machine snapshots

Managing virtual machine backups with Hyper-V Replica

Managing virtual machine connections

Summary

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

Summary

5. The Next Step – Integration with SCVMM

Why integrate with SCVMM?

Core fabric management

Resource optimization

Infrastructure enhancements

Cloud management

PowerShell cmdlets in integration with SCVMM

Summary

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

Summary

Index

Microsoft Hyper-V PowerShell Automation

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Author

Vinith Menon

Reviewers

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About the Author

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 platinu...

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