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Foglight for Automation Action Packs 7.3.0 - Hyper-V ActionPack User Guide

Table of Contents

Using the ActionPack for Microsoft Hyper-V

ActionPack for Microsoft Hyper-V Requirements

PowerShell Requirements Services Requirements Local Security Settings Firewall Settings

Configuration Script

COM and Automation Objects

Workflows Actions

Apply Snapshot Attach Disk Clone VM Configure Network Adapter

Create Differencing VHD Create Dynamic VHD Create Fixed Size VHD Create Snapshot Create VM Delete VM Edit Drive

Edit VM Move VM

Pause VM Reboot Hyper-V Server Remove All Network Adapters Remove All Snapshots Remove Drive Remove Network Adapter Remove Snapshot Rename Snapshot Resume VM Revert to Snapshot Save VM Set MAC Address

Pre-conditions:

Set Network Shutdown Hyper-V Server

Input Parameters

Shutdown VM Start VM Stop VM Wait VM State

Delete VM

Deletes a Hyper-V virtual machine.

Table 19. Delete VM Input Parameters
Name/Scripting name	Type	Description
Virtual machine/virtualMachine	TopologyObject	[HPVVirtualMachine]. Virtual machine to delete.
Delete content/deleteContent	Boolean	If true, the virtual machine content (for example VHD images) will be deleted (default value is false).

Edit Drive

Connects a new virtual disk image to a virtual hard drive.

Pre-conditions

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VM must be Turned Off. Any other state will result in an Illegal state for this operation exception.

Table 20. Edit Drive Input Parameters
Name/Scripting name	Type	Description
Hard Drive/hardDrive	TopologyObject	[HPVVirtualMachinePhysicalDisk]. The hard drive.
VHD path/vhdPath	String	The path to the virtual hard disk

Edit VM

Changes the Hyper-V virtual machine basic settings. You should specify all parameters. If you are not going to modify a parameter, specify its current value.

Changing the CPU count and memory size requires the virtual machine to be in the Turned Off state.

Table 21. Edit VM Input Parameters
Name/Scripting name	Type	Description
Virtual machine/virtualMachine	TopologyObject	[HPVVirtualMachine]. Virtual machine to edit.
VM name/vmName	String	The virtual machine name. Cannot be null or empty.
VM notes/notes	String	The virtual machine notes. Null and empty values are accepted.
Virtual memory size/memorySizeMb	Integer	The virtual memory size in MB. Valid range is between 8 and 4094 MB.
Virtual processor count/cpuCount	Integer	The virtual processor count. Valid range is between 1 and the actual number of processors on the physical machine.
Virtual machine reserve/cpuReservation	Integer	Percent of the logical CPU that is set aside for the running virtual machine. As each VM is started, the available capacity on the Hyper-V server is reduced.
Virtual machine limit/cpuLimit	Integer	Percentage of logical CPU that a running virtual machine is not allowed to exceed.
Relative weight/cpuWeight	Integer	How CPU is distributed when there is contention among all running virtual machines. The higher the number, the more processing power is allocated to the VM.

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