Get-SCHardwareProfile

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager

Get-SCHardwareProfile

Gets hardware profile objects from the VMM library.

Syntax

Parameter Set: Connection
Get-SCHardwareProfile [-VMMServer <ServerConnection> ] [ <CommonParameters>]

Parameter Set: All
Get-SCHardwareProfile [-All] [-VMMServer <ServerConnection> ] [ <CommonParameters>]

Parameter Set: ID
Get-SCHardwareProfile [-ID <Guid> ] [-VMMServer <ServerConnection> ] [ <CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

The Get-SCHardwareProfile cmdlet gets one or more hardware profile objects from the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) library. You can use a hardware profile repeatedly to create new virtual machines or virtual machine templates.

For more information about Get-SCHardwareProfile, type: "Get-Help Get-SCHardwareProfile -online".

Parameters

-All

Retrieves a full list of all subordinate objects independent of the parent object. For example, the command Get-SCVirtualDiskDrive -All retrieves all virtual disk drive objects regardless of the virtual machine object or template object that each virtual disk drive object is associated with.

Aliases

none

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

true (ByValue)

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-ID<Guid>

Specifies the numerical identifier (as a globally unique identifier, or GUID) for a specific object.

Aliases

none

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

true (ByValue)

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-VMMServer<ServerConnection>

Specifies a VMM server object.

Aliases

none

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

true (ByValue)

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

Inputs

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

Outputs

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

  • HardwareProfile

Examples

1: Get all hardware profiles from the library.

This command gets all hardware profile objects from the library on VMMServer01 and displays information about these profiles to the user.

PS C:\> Get-SCHardwareProfile -VMMServer "VMMServer01.Contoso.com"

2: Get a specific hardware profile from the library.

This command gets the hardware profile object named NewHWProfile01 and displays information about this hardware profile to the user.

C:\> Get-SCHardwareProfile | where { $_.Name -eq "NewHWProfile01" }

New-SCHardwareProfile

Remove-SCHardwareProfile

Set-SCHardwareProfile