PowerShell

PowerShell Script To Create A Converged Fabric For Clustered Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Host

May 31, 2012 // 12 Comments

Note: This post was originally written using the Windows Server “8” (aka 2012) Beta. The PowerShell cmdlets have changed in the Release Candidate and this code has been corrected to suit it. After the posts of the last few weeks, I thought I’d share a script that I am using to build [...]

Create A Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster Using PowerShell

May 28, 2012 // 1 Comment

I’ve since posted a more complete script for a Hyper-V cluster that’s using SMB 3.0 storage. I am creating and destroying Hyper-V clusters like crazy in the lab at the moment. And that means I need to script; I don’t want to waste time repeating the same thing over and over in the [...]

Change Windows Server 8 Hyper-V VM Virtual Switch Connection Using PowerShell

March 14, 2012 // 0 Comments

I’m building a demo lab on my “beast” laptop and want to make it as mobile as possible, independent of IP addresses, while retaining Internet access. I do that by placing the VMs on an internal virtual switch and running a proxy on the parent partition or in a VM (dual homed on external [...]

Use PowerShell To Reconfigure Dynamic Memory in All Hyper-V VMs

March 13, 2012 // 4 Comments

I wanted to get more VMs onto my Windows Server 8 Hyper-V lab, so I wanted to change my Dynamic Memory settings in my virtual machines. I don’t have the patience to edit every VM. PowerShell to the rescue: Get-VM * | Set-VMMemory -DynamicMemoryEnabled $True -MaximumBytes 8GB [...]

PowerShell Script to Create Lots of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Virtual Machines at Once

March 13, 2012 // 6 Comments

If you like this solution then you might like a newer script that creates lots of VMs based on specs that are stored in a CSV file. Here you will find a PowerShell script I just wrote to deploy a lot of Windows Server 8 Hyper-V VMs with the minimum of effort. I created it because I wanted more [...]

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Management Improvements

March 3, 2012 // 0 Comments

Another big investment by Microsoft in Windows Server 8 Hyper-V was how we interact with the product. With lots more functionality, and some of it being very advanced and not required by everyone, they had to decide how to present it in the GUI. And with huge cluster scale out (up to 64 hosts [...]

PowerShell: Use the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) GUI

December 22, 2011 // 0 Comments

Those of us who are old enough started working with computers from a scripting interface (BASIC) or via green screen. You old geezers with punch cards probably find PowerShell really easy. Those who have grown up using the Windows GUI must find PowerShell totally alien – searching for [...]

PowerShell: Get More Information On Your CmdLets

December 21, 2011 // 2 Comments

With the PowerShell Window, you can run Help or Get-Help to go looking for information of syntax and flags. If you want, you can even use the get-member cmdlet, such as: Get-NetAdapter | Get-Member There’s two things that are happening with the above command. Get-NetAdapter is being [...]

Hyper-V & PowerShell – Getting The Host On The Network

December 20, 2011 // 0 Comments

Note: I’d normally configure TCP-IP at this point but the cmdlets that I seem to need to use either are not working correctly or are very confusing – that’s pre-beta software for you! I’ll try to return to that topic at a later point if I find a solution. When you install Windows [...]

Hyper-V & PowerShell – Enable Hyper-V

December 19, 2011 // 3 Comments

Windows 8 includes native PowerShell cmdlets for Hyper-V for the first time ever. You can use this to manage Hyper-V from the command prompt and to automate complex and/or repetitive tasks. In fact, Hyper-V appears to be going down the Exchange route where only so much is revealed in [...]

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Aidan Finn, IT Pro

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