PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V R2 Posted on February 15, 2012 by dpejic The new PowerShell cmdlets for Hyper-V (by James O’Neill) are implemented in the form of a PowerShell version 2 module which is distributed as a single zip file from http://PShyperV.codeplex.com. A previous version was implemented for version 1 of PowerShell and remains available on CodePlex. The previous version will also work on PowerShell V2, but the new version will not work on PowerShell V1. Both versions work with the original release of Hyper-V and the R2 release. The library uses 31 different verbs and 69 different nouns (2139 possible combinations) To install the Hyper-V module, copy the contents of the “HyperV_Install” folder (inside the zip file) to a new folder “%systemdrive%\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\HyperV” To find the Hyper-V module, from PowerShell, type Get-Module -List Notice the HyperV module is picked up automatically by PowerShell. To import the Hyper-V module, from PowerShell, type import-module HyperV To find out which commands are available through the module, from PowerShell, type get-command -module HyperV To get help or more detailed information about a specific cmdlet, from PowerShell, type get-help <cmdlets> Some more examples: Connecting to a VM New-VMConnectSession Discovering and manipulating Machine states Get-VMState , Set-VMState , Convert-VmState, Ping-VM , Test-VMHeartBeat, Shutdown-VM , Start-VM, Stop-VM, Suspend-VM, Get-VMKVP, Add-KVP, Remove-KVP, Get-VMJPEG Backing up, exporting and snapshotting VMs Export-VM , Import-VM, Get-VMSnapshot, Choose-VMSnapshot , Apply-VMSnapshot , New-VMSnapshot ,Remove-VMSnapshot, Rename-VMSnapShot, Update-VMSnapshot, Get-VMSnapshotTree, Get-VmBackupScript Adding and removing VMs, configuring motherboard settings. New-VM , Remove-VM , Set-VM , Get-VMCPUCount, Set-VMCPUCount, Get-VMMemory, Set-VMMemory, Set-VMSerialPort Manipulating Disk controllers, drives and disk images Get-VMDiskController Add-VMSCSIController , Remove-VMSCSIcontroller Get-VMDriveByController , Add-VMDRIVE , Remove-VMdrive Get-VMDiskByDrive, Add-VMDisk , Set-VMDisk, Get-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, Choose-VMExternalEthernet, New-VMExternalSwitch, New-VMInternalSwitch, New-VmPrivateSwitch Working with VHD files Get-VHDDefaultPath, Get-VHDInfo, New-VHD, Compact-VHD, Test-VHD,Convert-VHD,Merge-VHD,Mount-VHD, Unmount-VHD Download Hyper-V R2 PS Library documentation here Download Hyper-V R2 PS Library here