One of the relatively cool things about Virtual Server 2005 is the ability to automate the configuration and provisioning of virtual machines using the Virtual Server 2005 API. Just about everything you can do through the GUI you can also do via the API - as long as you're a script guru. Well, if you're not quite at "guru" level yet, the TechNet folks have posted several sample scripts for managing Virtual Server 2005.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/vs/default.mspx
There are tons of good scripts out there broken down into categories to make them easy to browse and find:
- Virtual Disk Drives
- Virtual Machine and Virtual Server Properties
- Virtual Networks
- Virtual Server Access Rights and Security
- Virtual Server Client Information