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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By : ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By: ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index

Insight into Windows Server 2012 PowerShell (3.0)


Before we hit the installation topic of this section, let's first go ahead and understand the requirements for installing and running PowerShell 3.0.

PowerShell OS support

PowerShell 3.0 is supported on the following listed operating systems as of now. All these supported operating systems provide the same level of functionality for local and remote PowerShell sessions.

  • Windows 7 with Service Pack 1

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1

  • Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack

  • Windows 8

  • Windows Server 2012

System requirements

We already explained a bit about the system requirements of PowerShell in the Introduction to PowerShell section. PowerShell 3.0 has the following set of requirements, which should be met before you install PowerShell on any of the supported operating systems.

Windows Management Instrumentation 3.0

Windows PowerShell 3.0 requires Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 3.0. This program is included in Windows 8 Release Preview...