What you need for this book

This book requires that you have Windows PowerShell 3.0, which is available out of the box in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. The latter has the Hyper-V role enabled on it. Windows PowerShell 3.0 is also available for earlier versions of Windows as part of Microsoft's Windows Management Framework 3.0. You should also have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 with you.