To open the PowerShell ISE click on start, type PowerShell ISE.

This is a simple example and could be expanded on to include additional PowerShell features and more advanced VM deployments. The following example shows how to create a new virtual machine in the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). The complete command looks like the following: Get-VM -Name | Checkpoint-VM -SnapshotName Finally give the checkpoint a name using -SnapshotName.

To create a checkpoint using PowerShell, select the virtual machine using the Get-VM command and pipe this to the Checkpoint-VM command.

To start all currently powered off virtual machines, get a list of those machines and pipe the list to the Start-VM command:.

To start a particular virtual machine, run the following command with name of the virtual machine:.

This command is a copy of the command from step 2 with the filter changed from 'Running' to 'Off'.

To list all virtual machines in a powered off state, run the following command.

For more information on filtering see the Using the Where-Object documentation. A filter can be added by using the Where-Object command.

To return a list of only powered on virtual machines add a filter to the Get-VM command.

In PowerShell, run the following command:.

Use the Get-VM command to return a list of virtual machines. The output shows you how to structure the command, what the required and optional parameters are, and the aliases that you can use. For instance running the following command returns information about the Get-VM Hyper-V command.

To learn more about a particular PowerShell command use Get-Help.Get-Command -Module hyper-v | Out-GridView Run the following command to display a searchable list of PowerShell commands available with the Hyper-V PowerShell Module.Click on the Windows start button, type PowerShell.Now that you have walked through the basics of deploying Hyper-V, creating virtual machines and managing these virtual machines, let’s explore how you can automate many of these activities with PowerShell.

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