SCVMM C# Interface

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SCVMM C# Interface

Kutschera, Rick Wolfgang 0

Hi folks,

I am baffled to not find anything more about this already, so I wanted to throw this in here:

Is there any way to directly access SCVMM using C#? And I explicitly am looking for a way to do this directly from C#, not any workaround via the PowerShell module.

There are two reasons for that:

I need to roll the application out to a lot of servers, and I can't ensure that the VMM console is installed everywhere beforehand. So the requirement is that the application has everything included in the build itself that it needs to work. (And we are talking Copy-Only deployment, so I can't even run an installer here...)
And more importantly: There is scenarios in my system where I have large quantities of requests triggered from that application in a very short time. Using PowerShell would use WAY too much memory for that.

thx

Rick

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XinGuo-MSFT 22,271

Hi,

As of my knowledge, there isn't a direct C# interface provided by Microsoft for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) like there is for PowerShell.

Kutschera, Rick Wolfgang 0 Reputation points

2023-08-09T08:33:20.6166667+00:00

Do you have any suggestions on how to address my two concerns then? Is there any other way to interact with VMM that is scalable and deployable? (Other than just going directly to the database...)
XinGuo-MSFT 22,271 Reputation points

2023-08-10T07:36:01.68+00:00
You can try to invoke PowerShell commands from C# code using the System.Management.Automation namespace. This would allow you to use PowerShell cmdlets from C# directly.

using System.Management.Automation; // Create a PowerShell instance using (PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create()) { ps.AddScript("Your-SCVMM-CmdletHere"); var results = ps.Invoke(); // Process the results }
Kutschera, Rick Wolfgang 0 Reputation points

2023-08-10T07:39:38.2+00:00
I am using this code already. But as I wrote in my initial post, there is two issues with that:

This does not scale. If this is called a lot in parallel this will generate a HUGE memory footprint because of the PowerShell overhead

I can't expect VMM console to be installed everywhere, so I need to package everything needed into my (copy-only) application.

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