Hyper-V Powershell command are missing

In my never ending quest to learn a new thing everyday, I decided I needed to spend more time with Powershell. After a recent Hyper-V issue it seems it would be just the thing to help. So imagine my surprise when nothing I did could get the Hyper-V PS commands to work!

It turns out that because my server had been upgraded to Server 2012 from 2008R2, when the Hyper-V role is installed, the Hyper-V PS module isn’t.

SOLUTION

I found the following blog post that gave me the answer I needed
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertvi/archive/2012/11/28/hyper-v-powershell-module-not-installed-during-bare-metal-deployment.aspx

So in short, open Powershell and run

 install-windowsfeature -name hyper-v -IncludeManagementTools

or through the GUI:

1. Open the “Add Roles and Features Wizard”
2. Click Next through to add Features
3. Select “Remote Server Administration Tools | Role Administration Tools | Hyper-V Management Tools | Hyper-V Module for Windows PowerShell”