PowerShell Management Library For Hyper-V
Sunday, 13 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Powershell is everywhere. So is Hyper-V. It makes sense that these would find each other. They did. Not in the place where you would expect it but isn't it always like that?

At codeplex you will find the project to provide a PowerShell management library for Hyper-V. It does pretty much what it says. Note that a lot of the information available from Hyper-V is only available if Powershell is running with Elevated privilege
At present there are 66 functions in the library, some of these are worker functions which are not expected to be called directly, the others are listed below

Finding a VM
Get-VM, Choose-VM

Connecting to a VM
New-VMConnectSession

Discovering and manipulating Machine states
List-VMState , Set-VMState , Convert-VmState,
Ping-VM , Shutdown-VM , Start-VM, Stop-VM, Suspend-VM
Get-VMKVP

Backing up, exporting and snapshotting VMs
Backup-vm , Export-VM , Get-VMSnapshot, Choose-VMSnapshot , Apply-VMSnapshot , New-VMSnapshot ,Remove-VMSnapshot, Get-VMSnapshotTree

Adding and removing VMs, configuring motherboard settings.
New-VM , Remove-VM , Set-VM , Get-VMCPUCount, Set-VMCPUCount, Get-VMMemory, Set-VMMemory

Manipulating Disk controllers, drives and disk images
Get-VMDiskController
Add-VMSCSIController , Remove-VMSCSIcontroller
Get-VMDrive , Add-VMDRIVE , Remove-VMdrive
Get-VMDisk, Add-VMDISK , Set-VMDisk, List-VMDisk
Get-VMFloppyDisk , Add-VMFloppyDisk
Add-VMNewHardDisk

Manipluating Network Interface Cards
Get-VMNic , List-VMNic , Choose-VMNIC, Add-VMNIC, Remove-VMNIC , Set-VMNICAddress , Set-VMNICConnection , Get-VMNicport ,
Get-VMnicSwitch, Choose-VMSwitch, New-VMSwitchPort, Get-VMByMACaddress

Working with VHD files
Get-VHDDefaultPath, Get-VHDInfo, New-VHD, Compact-VHD, Mount-VHD, Unmount-VHD.

Check it out here .


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