Comments on: Building a Hyper-V Host Status Tool with PowerShell

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:40:00 +0000

In reply to James Golden. Did you dot source the script file? See my comment below.

By: James Golden

James Golden — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:19:00 +0000

Great script Jeffrey. Do you have any advice on why it doesn’t run for me though? I’ve tried it on several HV hosts (PS 5.1), and it doesn’t do anything. No errors at all. help get-vmhoststatus does error though. I’ve tried it with just server name as well as using the ‘-computername’ option. Still nothing.

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:59:00 +0000

In reply to Ivan Zhelev.

You need to load the function I wrote into your PowerShell session. As currently written you would need to save it to a ps1 file on your computer. Then dot source the ps1 file in your PowerShell session.

PS C:> . c:scriptsyourfile.ps1
PS C:> help get-vmhoststatus

By: Ivan Zhelev

Ivan Zhelev — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:28:00 +0000

PS C:> Get-VMHostStatus servername
Get-VMHostStatus : The term ‘Get-VMHostStatus’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:1 char:1
Get-VMHostStatus servername
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-VMHostStatus:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

By: massimiliano

massimiliano — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:49:00 +0000

GReat Script….my compliment 🙂