Virtualization Essentials

Optimizing a New Virtual Machine

The process we just executed is not very different from what system administrators go through as they deploy workloads onto a virtual platform. There are automation options and other methods of improving their operational efficiency available, and we’ll cover some of these as we progress, but the basic template is here. This, however, is only the first step in creating an application’s virtual machine. You have completed a fairly generic Windows installation, but there are two more important steps you need to take to help the VM perform its very best for the application that will run there. The first is specific to virtual machines, while the second is just good practice for physical or virtual servers.

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