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Lately I've been writing about my use of PowerShell type extensions as a way to get more done quickly. Or at least give me the information I want with minimal effort. I use Hyper-V a great deal and the Hyper-V cmdlets are invaluable. And while a command like Get-VM<\/a> provides a lot of information, I always seem to want more so I thought I'd share with you my Hyper-V related type extensions. Even if you don't need or use Hyper-V, you might find my techniques useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The object type for a Hyper-V virtual machine is Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.VirtualMachine which you can get easily enough by running Get-VM and piping it to Get-Member<\/a>. Using Update-TypeData<\/a>, there are a number of script properties I want to define. These are properties where the value is calculated by a PowerShell script block. For example, I want to be able to quickly see if a virtual machine is missing any of its configured disk files. I could run a command like this:<\/p>\n

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But if I want this information often, that's too much typing. So instead I can create a script property with this script block. This version takes into account that the VM might have multiple disks, one or more of which might be missing.<\/p>\n

{\r\n    if ($this.HardDrives) {\r\n        #test if there are any false results\r\n        if ( ($this | Get-VMHardDiskDrive | Test-Path) -contains $False ) {\r\n            $False\r\n        }\r\n        else {\r\n            $True\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n    else {\r\n        #no hard drive files configured or found\r\n        $false\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
On a related note, I'd like to know how much disk space the virtual machine is consuming.<\/p>\n
{ \r\n $stat = Get-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName $this.vmname | Get-Item | Measure-Object -Property length -sum\r\n [math]::Round($stat.sum\/1GB,2)\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
I also like to know the path to the configuration file. This will be a vmcx file with a file name that matches the virtual machine's ID.<\/p>\n
Join-path -Path \"$($this.configurationLocation)\\Virtual Machines\" -ChildPath \"$($this.vmid).vmcx\" -Resolve\r\n<\/pre>\n
In order to define these, and a few others, I use code like this in my PowerShell profile script.<\/p>\n
I define a hashtable where the key will be the property name and the value is the scriptblock I will use.<\/p>\n
$extensions = @{\r\nTestVHD = {\r\n    if ($this.HardDrives) {\r\n        #test if there are any false results\r\n        if ( ($this | Get-VMHardDiskDrive | Test-Path) -contains $False ) {\r\n            $False\r\n        }\r\n        else {\r\n            $True\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n    else {\r\n        #no hard drive files configured or found\r\n        $false\r\n    } \r\n}\r\nConfigurationFile = {\r\n Join-path -Path \"$($this.configurationLocation)\\Virtual Machines\" -ChildPath \"$($this.vmid).vmcx\" -Resolve\r\n } \r\nDiskpath = {$this.Harddrives.path}\r\nRunning = { if ($this.state -eq 'Running') {$True} else { $False}}\r\nSizeGB = { \r\n $stat = Get-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName $this.vmname | Get-Item | Measure-Object -Property length -sum\r\n [math]::Round($stat.sum\/1GB,2)\r\n  }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
Next I define a hashtable of parameters that I will splat with Update-TypeData.<\/p>\n
$params = @{\r\n  TypeName = 'Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.VirtualMachine' \r\n  MemberType = 'ScriptProperty'\r\n  MemberName = ''\r\n  Value = ''\r\n  Force = $True\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
The last step is to enumerate the extensions and update type data.<\/p>\n
$extensions.GetEnumerator() | foreach {\r\n $params.memberName = $_.key\r\n $params.value = $_.value\r\n # Write-Host \"Creating script property $($_.key)\" -ForegroundColor cyan\r\n Update-Typedata @params\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
By using hash tables, my code organized and easier to read.<\/p>\n
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And now I can run commands like this:<\/p>\n
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I love that PowerShell provides the flexibility to meet my<\/em> needs. As always, comments and feedback are welcome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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