Manage Hyper-V Virtual Machines using PowerShell cmdlets

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PowerShell offers more than 200 cmdlets for managing Hyper-V Virtual machines (VMs), virtual hard disks, and other components of a Hyper-V environment. Hyper-V cmdlets are available in the Hyper-V module for PowerShell.

The Hyper-V cmdlets are available when you install the Hyper-V Module for Windows PowerShell feature (found under Hyper-V Management Tools) on a Windows client operating system, or the Hyper-V Module for Windows PowerShell feature on Windows Server. The Hyper-V module is natively compatible with PowerShell 7 on Windows 10/11 1809 and later.

Hyper-V cmdlets use one of three prefixes:

• VM for virtual machine cmdlets
• VHD for virtual hard disk cmdlets
• VFD for virtual floppy disk cmdlets

The following table lists common cmdlets for managing Hyper-V VMs.

Table 1: Cmdlets for managing Hyper-V VMs

Cmdlet	Description
Get-VM	Gets properties of a VM
Set-VM	Sets properties of a VM
New-VM	Creates a new VM
Start-VM	Starts a VM
Stop-VM	Stops a VM
Restart-VM	Restarts a VM
Suspend-VM	Pauses a VM
Resume-VM	Resumes a paused VM
Import-VM	Imports a VM from a file
Export-VM	Exports a VM to a file
Checkpoint-VM	Creates a checkpoint of a VM