After acquiring our new Windows Server 2008 w/Hyper-V we needed a tool to manage both Hyper-V’s and Virtual Server’s 2005. With our recent integration of PowerShell into our infrastructure make more sense to upgrade our
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2005 to 2008. PowerShell has become an effective tool to built automation solutions in our network, systems, and even our business applications.
Building a 64bit virtual machine with Windows Server 2008 and installing SCVMM 2008 was hassle-free. Installing the agents was effortless and with less downtime. So, after the SCVMM installation we can monitor and manage both Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V from one single console.
Using
PowerShell bring added security to our scripting tools not provided by any predecessors (VBScript/Jscript) scripting tools. The first time security prompt will be displayed:
Then, with a simple cmdlet “
Get-VM -VMMServer Topaz”, we can list all your virtual machines in your managed SCVMM2008 :
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We can later build a PowerShell script to create reports about our Virtual Machines.
Flexible, powerful, and efficient.
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