Installing VMM dependencies

Before installing VMM, we need to ensure that the server meets the minimum system requirements and that all of the prerequisite software is installed. For more information, check the software requirements specified in the Specifying the correct system requirements for a real-world scenario recipe in Chapter 1, VMM 2016 Architecture.

As you may have noticed, we use PowerShell cmdlets for almost every task. Windows PowerShell comes installed by default since Windows Server 2008 R2 and provides features that help you to automate all of the IT tasks around private cloud deployment and management, starting with deploying your cloud infrastructure servers, through onboarding virtual machines to that infrastructure, and ending with monitoring your data center environment and collecting information about how it performs.