Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell - Part 4 and Negative 1

re: Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell - Part 4 and Negative 1

kirkjr — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:49:27 GMT

Hi Taylor,

These Hyper-V management with Powershell scripting blogs are great and I am finding it really useful for setting up Hyper-V environments from scratch. One question though, is it possible to perform the tasks synchronously? My preference when creating VHDs is to create fixed size disks and allow them to build entirely before creating the next one in order to minimise fragmentation.

Thanks

Rob

re: Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell - Part 4 and Negative 1

Taylorb — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:14:14 GMT

Rob,

In short yes and no... Yes in that you can wait for the WMI job to compleate prior to starting the next job and No in that the API its self does not support this.

Here's the code to wait for a job to be compleate:

while (([WMI]$Job.Job.JobState -eq 2) -or ([WMI]$Job.Job.JobState -eq 3) -or ([WMI]$Job.Job.JobState -eq 4)) {Start-Sleep -m 100}

re: Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell - Part 4 and Negative 1

Kirk Williams — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:49:08 GMT

Ok. I can't find any site to do this, but how do you do these scripts? I tried copy/paste into powershell. I tried creating a .wmi file. That didn't work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Usare PowerShell e WMI per gestire Hyper-V: da dove iniziare?

ZenIT Blog — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:02:21 GMT

Taylor Brown del team di sviluppo di Hyper-V ha fatto 4 post abbastanza interessanti e introduttivi sull'uso

re: Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell - Part 4 and Negative 1

Taylorb — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:25:15 GMT

Kirk,

There are two option's

1) Copy each line and run them on there own in a PowerShell Window

2) Create a .ps1 file with the contents in it, to execute it you will need to configure the execution policy (see Get-Help Set-ExecutionPolicy).

-Enjoy