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Hyper-V PowerGUI PowerPack – Now That’s Power….

I loved PowerGUI ever since I found it a month ago or so… Well Kirk and the PowerGUI guys have done it again… They now have a pretty comprehensive PowerShell wrapper for Hyper-V… Pretty Cool!

http://poshoholic.com/2008/10/22/powergui-now-with-100-more-hyper-v/
As of today, PowerGUI users can download a free Hyper-V PowerPack for PowerGUI!  This PowerPack has been a huge undertaking, to put it mildly, and I’m absolutely thrilled with the end result (and so happy that I’ve finally finished the first version…whew)!  Here’s a list of some of the key features that this PowerPack provides:

1. Bulk management of multiple VMs, Virtual Networks, Virtual Hard Drives, Snapshots, etc. within one Hyper-V servers and across multiple Hyper-V servers.
2. Support for remote management of Hyper-V servers using alternate credentials.
3. Integrated management of standard Windows features like Processes, Services, Event Logs, etc.
4. Automatic credential caching (in memory, not to disk) allowing you to enter a password for a Hyper-V server you are managing only once per PowerGUI session.
5. Discovery of Hyper-V servers through Active Directory.
6. Over 30 rich user-defined functions that wrap the Hyper-V WMI interfaces and provide a cmdlet-like experience when scripting with Hyper-V while outputting rich, custom objects complete with properties and methods to script to your heart’s content.  Many of these functions support CSV input through Import-Csv, so there are a lot of opportunities for provisioning already available.
7. 101 links and actions allowing you to manage just about everything you would want to manage in Hyper-V, including configuration of security via AzMan Scopes, Snapshot refresh, and many, many more.

Download: http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=2142&categoryID=21

Taylor Brown
Hyper-V Integration Test Lead
http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorb

Published Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:52 PM by taylorb