Blog Post on EMC Powershell Cmdlets

I recently came across the following blog post regarding EMC Powershell Cmdlets from Alan Renouf at EMC that I thought was worth sharing.  I haven't had the chance to meet Alan in person but we've traded some emails or been on the same discussion threads and I know enough that Alan is a wizard in several areas including virtualization, scripting and Powershell cmdlets.  If this is an area of interest for you, I encourage you to follow his blog VIRTU-AL (disclaimer, yes his posts are focused on VMware but the information contained within many of them are too good to overlook and since many of his posts regarding scripting can be applied to Hyper-V as well).

So what is so special about the EMC Powershell Cmdlets post?  Powershell cmdlets provide you the ability to script out basic to advanced functions such as creating or removing virtual machines.  In Microsoft System Center, anytime you complete an action in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), the commands are presented in a Powershell cmdlet script to save and reuse when performing the action again.  By scripting these functions, you can easily deploy a large number of VMs for instance to save time from repeating the action over and over in the GUI.

With EMC's Powershell cmdlets, you can do the same thing with your EMC storage.  For instance, maybe you want to take an EMC snapshot of a volume containing several VMs.  Or maybe you want to create the storage volumes for new Vms you are deploying and you want to incorporate all of this into a single Powershell cmdlet script.  Regardless of the use, the more you play with these commands the more you'll see how easy they can make storage and VM administration.  So be sure to check out Alan's post including a list of available cmdlets for EMC storage and test some of our Powershell cmdlets for storage management.

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