Milestone 7

Overview

• Explore cmdlets for HyperV
• clone Script
• Comparison to vCenter

Basic HyperV cmdlets

These commands are basic but help build a good foundation of how scripting in powershell for HyperV will look like.

This script stops a VM, takes a named snapshot & changes the network adapeter:

# Stop sonofubuntu
Stop-VM -Name sonofubuntu

# Create Checkpoint for sonofubuntu
Set-VM -Name sonofubuntu -CheckpointType Standard
Checkpoint-VM -Name sonofubuntu
Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
...

Full Script here

I again want to rave about Microsofts documentation for powershell and HyperV, without which I could not have completed any of this: here

Cloning with Powershell

This script takes an existing VM, changes its VHD to read only, creates a new VHD based off the parent, then creates a new VM with the child VHD.

# Path to VM VHD
$parentvhd = Get-Item "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks\alpine01-super26.vhdx"

# Change the VHD to Read Only
 $parentvhd.Attributes = $parentvhd.Attributes -bor [System.IO.FileAttributes]::ReadOnly
...

Full Script here

Comparison to vCenter

Overall, I find the HyperV GUI to be more clunky and less intuative, even though it shares many similarites with vCenter.

However

Automating tasks with powershell was much more straight forward and better documented then pyvmomi.