Mastering: Hyper-V™ Deployment

Chapter 3: The Project Plan

Understand the need for a virtualization project plan. A project plan will help you organize and schedule the various tasks to be completed during a hardware virtualization project.

Master It You are a consultant, and you have been engaged by a customer to advise on the deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with various supporting Microsoft System Center products. Upon entering the site, you find that the IT staff is rushing into a deployment. What would you say to them to encourage them to take a more considered approach?

Solution A hardware virtualization project will impact all aspects of the business. How well it runs depends on a structured project plan, gathering requirements from the business, ...