{"id":3366,"date":"2013-06-21T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/21\/create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-2\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:01:00","slug":"create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/create-a-new-virtual-machine-with-powershell-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a New Virtual Machine with PowerShell: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Microsoft PowerShell MVP and honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, continues his series about using Windows PowerShell to create a virtual machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft 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>.<\/p>\n

Sean 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.<\/p>\n

To read Part 1 of this 3-part series, please see Create a New Virtual Machine with Windows PowerShell: Part 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s Sean…<\/p>\n

Brad and I returned from lunch to again look at the message we received after we specified the following cmdlet in Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V:<\/p>\n

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

We got this prompt:<\/p>\n

NewVHDSizeBytes:<\/p>\n

I looked at the message. “It seems to be asking for how large the VHD file should be. From the example of the memory, I think we can just type it in as 60 GB.”<\/p>\n

We typed that and got a different error message:<\/p>\n

Cannot recognize “60000MB” as a System.UInt64 due to a format error.<\/p>\n

I looked up. “Ah! A .NET error. I guess it wants us to type 60 GB in long form. If we’re going to do that, let’s type a single-line command:<\/p>\n

NEW-VM –Name “Brad VM SCSM” –MemoryStartupBytes 2048 –NewVHDPath E:\\VHD\\BradVMSCSM-C.VHDX –NewVHDSizeBytes 6000000000<\/p>\n

A moment later, we checked the Hyper-V console and saw a newly created virtual machine.<\/p>\n

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“How did you know the parameter name was -NewVHDSizeBytes<\/strong>?” he asked.<\/p>\n

I looked over at Brad. “If a parameter is needed and is not specified, Windows PowerShell will show the parameter name and prompt for the needed value. So I knew from experience using Windows PowerShell that if I saw a prompt asking for a value, it would be a parameter for the cmdlet.”<\/p>\n

Brad looked at me. “But what about the CPU cores? What about the network settings? I didn’t see anything about those in the cmdlet we entered. How do we deal with that?”<\/p>\n

“Let’s see if there are any cmdlets for the virtual machine network adapter,” I suggested.<\/p>\n

GET-COMMAND *Network* -module Hyper-V<\/p>\n

The results gave us an answer almost immediately. Near the top of the list was the Add-VMNetworkAdapter<\/strong> cmdlet.<\/p>\n

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Brad quickly typed the cmdlet name to see an example of its use.<\/p>\n

GET-HELP ADD-VMNetworkAdapter –examples<\/p>\n

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He looked up and said, “Is it really that easy? Just add the network adapter to the virtual machine? So if I want to call the network adapter to my virtual switch called ‘Hyper-V-Prod1’ and attach it to the ‘Brad VM SCSM’ virtual machine, I would type this…”<\/p>\n

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

Now to the second task: set the CPU settings. Brad was already at the keyboard figuring it out. “So, let’s see. I can find a cmdlet that might meet my need for the processor. Let’s search.”<\/p>\n

GET-COMMAND *Processor* -module Hyper-V<\/p>\n

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Looking at the available cmdlets for processor settings, it seemed logical to Brad to use SET-VMProcessor<\/strong> if he wants to SET the virtual machine’s settings for the processor. He typed Get-Help<\/strong> to find examples for its use.<\/p>\n

GET-HELP SET-VMProcessor -examples<\/p>\n

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The first example seemed to meet the need. He entered his virtual machine name, “Brad VM SCSM”, and added a count of 2 virtual CPUs.<\/p>\n

SET-VMProcessor –VMName “Brad VM SCSM” –Count 2<\/p>\n

We pulled up the properties of the virtual machine to check the configuration.<\/p>\n

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A smile crossed Brad’s face. “How can I make this repeatable for multiple machines?”<\/p>\n

~Sean<\/p>\n

Thank Sean, this is really good stuff. Join Sean next Friday for the exciting conclusion of this series, and join me tomorrow for more cool Windows PowerShell stuff.<\/p>\n

I invite you to follow me on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.<\/p>\n

Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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