{"id":2081,"date":"2013-07-31T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2013\/07\/31\/dal-in-action-introducing-pcsv-cmdlets-for-out-of-band-management-of-server-hardware\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:05:31","slug":"dal-in-action-introducing-pcsv-cmdlets-for-out-of-band-management-of-server-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/dal-in-action-introducing-pcsv-cmdlets-for-out-of-band-management-of-server-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"DAL in Action: Introducing PCSV Cmdlets for Out-of-Band Management of Server Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is a part of the nine-part “<\/span><\/em>What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2<\/span><\/em><\/a>” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s <\/span><\/em>In the Cloud<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a> blog.  Today’s blog post covers Out-Of-Band hardware management using new PCSVDevice cmdlets and how it applies to the larger topic of “Transform the Datacenter.”  To read that post and see the other technologies discussed, read today’s post: “<\/span><\/em>What’s New in 2012 R2: IaaS Innovations<\/span><\/em><\/a>.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Windows Server is built from Cloud up to make it best Cloud OS. We believe that the issues running Clouds and the large datacenters running cloud workloads are classic OS issues. Our vision of datacenter management is built around concept of “Datacenter Abstraction Layer (DAL)” – which enables datacenter plug-n-play experience using industry standards. This vision is outlined <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> A critical aspect of building and scaling cloud infrastructure is Out-of-band management of server hardware through Baseboard management controllers (BMC).  This is not a new concept; Out-of-band management of server hardware through BMC has been in existence for about 15 years now. In fact, last year we published “<\/span>Out of band hardware management<\/span><\/a>” PowerShell module at TechNet Script Center to enable management of server hardware using DMTF WS-Man standard (CIM Cmdlets). SCVMM 2012 also has support for out of band management. In WS 2012 R2, we take this a step forward to make this functionality available in box through an easy to use task abstraction so that users can include these functions in their scripting solutions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As we planned Windows Server 2012 R2, we talked to datacenter operations teams and asked where they spend their manual effort in datacenter management. Almost everyone agreed that it goes into configuring networks and provisioning server hardware. In this blog post we will cover server hardware management. Network configuration will be covered in a separate blog. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We started with three simple objectives for WS 2012 R2 release:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n