{"id":3321,"date":"2013-06-28T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/28\/create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-3\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:01:00","slug":"create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a New Virtual Machine with PowerShell: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Windows PowerShell MVP and honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, completes his series about using Windows PowerShell to create a virtual machine.<\/span>\nMicrosoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If you are a seasoned Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog reader, you know that the most frequent guest blogger is Sean Kearney. If you are new to the blog, I welcome you, and I encourage you to catch up with Sean’s previous blogs<\/a>.\nSean is a Windows PowerShell MVP and an Honorary Scripting Guy.<\/a> Sean’s session at TechEd NA and TechEd Europe this year is Integrating with Microsoft System Center 2012 and Windows PowerShell<\/a>. In his free time, Sean has written several blog posts about Hyper-V and some other cool stuff, and for the next few weeks, Sean will be the designated guest blogger on Fridays.\nTo read the previous posts in this series, please see:\nCreate a New Virtual Machine with Windows PowerShell: Part 1<\/a>\nCreate a New Virtual Machine with Windows PowerShell: Part 2<\/a>\nTake it away Sean…\nMy good friend, Brad, had been playing with making a new virtual machine in Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V. He wanted to create a machine with the following parameters:<\/p>\n

Name of “Brad VM SCSM”<\/p>\n

2 gigabytes of RAM<\/p>\n

60 gigabyte hard drive<\/p>\n

2 CPU cores assigned<\/p>\n

Connected to my virtual network called “Hyper-V-Prod1”\nTo do so, he ran the following commands in Windows PowerShell:<\/p>\n

NEW-VM –Name “Brad VM SCSM” –MemoryStartupBytes 2048 –NewVHDPath E:VHDBradVMSCSM-C.VHDX –NewVHDSizeBytes 60000000000<\/p>\n

ADD-VMNetworkAdapter –VMName “Brad VM SCSM” –Switchname “Hyper-V-Prod1”<\/p>\n

SET-VMProcessor –VMName “Brad VM SCSM”\nNow Brad’s question became how to make this repeatable. “I’ve figured out online that if I save this as a .PS1 file with Notepad or the Windows PowerShell ISE, this is technically a Windows PowerShell script. I would like to do two things to make this truly useful:<\/p>\n