14 DAY TRIAL // A free resource from Microsoft makes it extremely simple to administer System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 assets even without turning to the product’s Administrator Console.
But even with the console available, fact is that there are IT administrators which still prefer to use commands in order to manage their Virtual Machine Manager environment.
For those IT admins that would much rather turn to cmdlets than anything UI-related, Microsoft is offering the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Cmdlet Reference.
The document is available free of charge from the Microsoft Download Center, and as the label implies it brings to the table the help topics for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 cmdlets.
“System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 is a server application that you can use to manage virtual machines on a variety of virtualization platforms."
“As an alternative to using the VMM Administrator Console to administer your Virtual Machine Manager environment, you can use the cmdlets in the Windows PowerShell - Virtual Machine Manager command shell, which is an administrator-focused command-line shell,” Microsoft explained.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 was released to manufacturing on August 25th, 2009.
At this point in time, customers can still download a taste of the RTM release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 via the link at the bottom of this article.
IT admins can also grab the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Cmdlet Reference from the Redmond company, in order to have more options in terms of how they manage their environments.
“This document contains the output that you receive after you type the following command in the Windows PowerShell – Virtual Machine Manager command shell: Get-Command -PSSnapin Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager | Sort-Object Noun, Verb | Get-Help -detailed > VMM2008R2CmdletHelpSortedNounVerb.txt,” Microsoft explained.
“This command generates a list of cmdlet Help topics that is sorted by noun. This list contains the same Help for each cmdlet that you can view in the Windows PowerShell – Virtual Machine Manager command shell by typing the following command: Get-Help <Cmdlet-Name> -detailed,” the software giant added. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RTM is available for download here.