Managing Hyper-V
The main management tool for working with Hyper-V has been the MMC for Hyper-V, Failover Cluster Manager, or VMM. With Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V finally gets full PowerShell support, which provides access to not only all the functionality available in the GUI, but also the functionality not exposed through the GUI.
VMM is a great alternative for managing multiple Hyper-V hosts. However, SCVMM is beyond the scope of this book. You might want to consider evaluating the System Center 2012 SP1 suite.
Table 2-7: Changes to the Hyper-V Management Console
| Hyper-V Host | Virtual Machines |
| New, Virtual Machine (existing) New, Virtual Hard Disk (existing) New, Floppy Disk (existing) Import Virtual Machine (improved) Hyper-V Settings ... |
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