Using GetSummaryInformation() method
GetSummaryInformation() method in the Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService class gets data like guest OS type, uptime, heartbeat, etc, etc This method is documented here. This one takes SettingData and...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2008 local management scripts / UI
Like I mentioned in my earlier post, I am planning to create a easy to use local interface for managing Hyper-V Server 2008. For the same purpose, I created a project on Codeplex. You can access the...
View ArticleFirst release of HVS2008 Scripts / UI
A week after I created this Codeplex project, I made the first release this evening. This is a very initial release and will not have the complete functionality. For this release, I mostly concentrated...
View ArticleVBScript to change the default VHD / VM location
I have found numerous resources on the net to perform this using PowerShell scripting. However, doing the same in VBScript isn’t straight forward. I needed this piece of code for my HVS2008 UI project...
View Articlecodeplex project update
I have made an intermittent release on Codeplex. You can download it @ http://www.codeplex.com/HVS2008UI/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19220 There are no major feature additions. I have...
View ArticleChanges to GetVirtualDiskInfo() Method
It has been a while since I used the script written for mouting VHDs. I started re-writing the code for mouting/unmount VHDs for the Codeplex project and realized that MS changed the output format for...
View ArticleVHDMOUNT for Hyper-V – Updated Scripts
I just posted an issue with old VHDMOUNT scripts I created. As mentioned in the earlier post, this issue was caused because of an update to GetVirtualHardDiskInfo method output format. You can download...
View ArticleOne more release of HVS 2008 UI to end the year
It has been a great year so far. I have really enjoyed working on quite a few interesting things including the HVS2008 UI project. I just made another release of this tool on codeplex. You can download...
View ArticleHyper-V: Detecting VM heartbeat loss
Recently, someone requested for a script to detect a VM's heart beat loss and then perform a hard reset. With the experience from HVS2008 UI at hand, it was quite a simple task.
View ArticleUpdate – Detecting Hyper-V VM Heartbeat loss
n this post, I am making an update to the original script available. There is just a minor update to the logging mechanism. You can now choose to log all the success / fail events to Windows...
View ArticleHyper-V: VHD Shell Extensions, updated release
I just posted a batch file wrapper around VHD Shell Extensions to find stale VHDs on a Hyper-V Server. However, because of VHDShellExt.vbs design, it will always try to find if the given VHD is...
View ArticleUsing GetSummaryInformation() method
GetSummaryInformation() method in the Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService class gets data like guest OS type, uptime, heartbeat, etc, etc This method is documented here. This one takes SettingData and...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2008 local management scripts / UI
Like I mentioned in my earlier post, I am planning to create a easy to use local interface for managing Hyper-V Server 2008. For the same purpose, I created a project on Codeplex. You can access the...
View ArticleFirst release of HVS2008 Scripts / UI
A week after I created this Codeplex project, I made the first release this evening. This is a very initial release and will not have the complete functionality. For this release, I mostly concentrated...
View ArticleVBScript to change the default VHD / VM location
I have found numerous resources on the net to perform this using PowerShell scripting. However, doing the same in VBScript isn’t straight forward. I needed this piece of code for my HVS2008 UI project...
View Articlecodeplex project update
I have made an intermittent release on Codeplex. You can download it @ http://www.codeplex.com/HVS2008UI/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19220 There are no major feature additions. I have...
View ArticleChanges to GetVirtualDiskInfo() Method
It has been a while since I used the script written for mouting VHDs. I started re-writing the code for mouting/unmount VHDs for the Codeplex project and realized that MS changed the output format for...
View ArticleVHDMOUNT for Hyper-V – Updated Scripts
I just posted an issue with old VHDMOUNT scripts I created. As mentioned in the earlier post, this issue was caused because of an update to GetVirtualHardDiskInfo method output format. You can download...
View ArticleOne more release of HVS 2008 UI to end the year
It has been a great year so far. I have really enjoyed working on quite a few interesting things including the HVS2008 UI project. I just made another release of this tool on codeplex. You can download...
View ArticleHyper-V: Detecting VM heartbeat loss
Recently, someone requested for a script to detect a VM's heart beat loss and then perform a hard reset. With the experience from HVS2008 UI at hand, it was quite a simple task.
View Article
