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February 17, 2012

Exporting a Hyper-V virtual machine using PowerShell

I know I’m a little VMware-centric when it comes to PowerShell and virtualization. This shouldn’t be too surprising with the features of PowerCLI combined with our PowerVI VMware tool.  

I thought I would venture off that path with a blog post I found by Ben Armstrong that explains how to export a Hyper-V virtual machine using PowerShell -

I need to automate the process of exporting a virtual machine recently – and when I checked around I found that while there are a number of sample scripts out there that show you how to do this (some even on this blog) they are all written in VBScript.  As I am now to the stage where PowerShell is my preferred scripting language – I sat down and wrote up this short script:

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