This was the slide deck used for my technet Webcast

1. Managing Microsoft Hyper-V with PowerShell Ravikanth Chaganti

2. About Me Lead Engineer at Dell Windows PowerShell MVP Author of Free eBook: Layman’s guide to PowerShell 2.0 remoting Free eBook: WMI Query Language via PowerShell (coming soon) Co-author on Quest’s SharePoint 2010 & PowerShell cheat sheet Blog at http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog

3. Agenda PowerShell 2.0 features Integrated Scripting Environment PowerShell remoting PowerShell for Hyper-V Hyper-V WMI – Overview Virtual Machine Management Virtual Network Management Virtual Storage Management Hyper-V PowerShell Module Q & A

4. PowerShell 2.0 Features Advanced Functions Integrated Scripting Environment Remoting Background jobs Eventing Better error handling & debugging support Several new cmdlets

5. Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) Output Pane Script Pane Command Pane

6. PowerShell Remoting Enables Universal Code Execution Model Whatever runs locally should run anywhere Uses Windows Remote Management Supports several remoting methods Invoke-Command Interactive remoting Implicit remoting

7. PowerShell for Hyper-V No built-in cmdlets Rich set of WMI interfaces under rootirtualization namespace 108 classes prefixed with Msvm_ Complex to script PowerShell module for Hyper-V Developed by James O’neill http://pshyperv.codeplex.com System Center Virtual Machine Manager cmdlets

8. Hyper-V WMI - Overview Get enabled when Hyper-V role is installed Present in rootirtualization namespace 108 classes Excluding the CIM and system classes Can be categorized in to: BIOS Input Integration Component Memory / Processor / Networking / Storage / Serial / Video Devices Virtual System & Virtual System Management Profile Registration & Resource Management

9. Hyper-V WMI: Virtual Machine Management Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService class is used Create, Delete, and Manage VMs DefineVirtualSystem DestroyVirtualSystem ModifyVirtualSystem ModifyVirtualSystemResources RemoveVirtualSystemResources Import, Export, and snapshot VMs ImportVirtualSystemEx ExportVirtualSystemEx CreateVirtualSystemSnapshot RemoveVirtualSystemSnapshot

10. Hyper-V WMI: Virtual Network Management Msvm_VirtualSwitchManagementService class is used Create, Delete, and Manage virtual network components CreateSwitch CreateSwitchPort DeleteSwitch DeleteSwitchPort ConnectSwitchPort DisconnectSwitchPort

11. Hyper-V WMI: Virtual Storage Management Msvm_ImageManagementService class is used Create, Mount, and Dismount virtual media CreateFixedVirtualHardDisk CreateDynamicVirtualHardDisk CreateDifferencingVirtualHardDisk Mount Unmount ValidateVirtualHardDisk

12. Hyper-V PowerShell Module Scripting WMI interfaces is Quite complex Quite verbose Hyper-V PowerShell Module Developed by James O’neill Can be download from http://pshyperv.codeplex.com Import-Module –Name hyperv Get-Command –Module hyperv Contains 122 cmdlets

13. Hyper-V PowerShell Module: Virtual Machine Get-VM New-VM Remove-VM Move-VM Export-VM Import-VM Many more…. Get-Command -noun VM*

14. Get-VMSwitch New-VMExternalSwitch New-VMInternalSwitch New-VMPrivateSwitch Remove-VMSwitch Many More.. Get-Command –Noun VM*Switch Get-Command -Noun VMNIC* Hyper-V PowerShell Module: Virtual Network

15. Hyper-V PowerShell Module: Virtual Storage Compress-VHD Convert-VHD Dismount-VHD Expand-VHD Get-VHD Merge-VHD Mount-VHD New-VHD Test-VHD Add-VMDrive Remove-VMDrive

16. Hyper-V PowerShell Module: VM Resources Add-VMNIC Add-VMDisk Set-VMCPUCount Set-VMMemory Set-VM Many More..

17. References Hyper-V WMI interfaces: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc136986(v=VS.85).aspx PowerShell Module for Hyper-V: http://pshyperv.codeplex.com Getting Started with PowerShell: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd742419

18. Q & A