You're reading from Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568457

Length 674 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

Servers

Author (1):

Thomas Lee

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7

2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER

3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell

4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise

5. Exploring .NET

6. Managing Active Directory

7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise

8. Implementing Enterprise Security

9. Managing Storage

10. Managing Shared Data

11. Managing Printing

12. Managing Hyper-V

13. Managing Azure

14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell

15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Using Hyper-V VM groups

Hyper-V VM groups allow you to group VMs for automation. There are two types of VM groups you can create, VMCollectionType and ManagementCollectionType:

A VMCollectionType VM group contains VMs
A ManagementCollectionType VM group contains VMCollectionType VM groups

With VM groups, you could have two VMCollectionType VM groups, SQLAccVMG (which contains the SQLAcct1, SQLAcct2, and SQLAcct3 VMs) and SQLMfgVMG, which contains the SQLMfg1 and SQLMfg2 VMs. You could then create a ManagementCollectionType VM group, VM-All, containing the two VMCollectionType VM groups.

The VM groups feature feels incomplete. For example, there are no -VMGroup parameters on any of the Hyper-V cmdlets enabling you to configure a VM group, and having two types of groups seems over the top. The feature could be useful for very large VM hosts running hundreds of VMs, if only from an organizational perspective, but all in all, this feature could be improved...