May 2008
Beginner
31 pages
1h 38m
English
Virtualization introduces flexibility into an environment by allowing virtual machines (VMs) to be moved easily between hosts. Services that may not be compatible with each other can run on the same host because of the isolation that the VM provides. However, virtualization overhead may affect the number of clients that a given VM can support.
This guide describes several reasons to choose virtualization. However, additional planning is required for the physical computers that will host the VMs. The Infrastructure Planning and Design Windows Server Virtualization guide at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897507.aspx provides the planning process for server virtualization.
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