Designing Virtual Machines
How often had engineers purchased new physical servers straight from a catalog or website without customizing them? It was very rare; each application had requirements and recommended configurations, and every organization had its own way of specializing and managing hardware. The same holds true for virtual machines. In this section, you are going to look at how to design and configure a virtual machine to suit the needs of the guest operating system, the application that will be installed, and your management system.
Virtual Machine Maximums
One of the goals of server virtualization is to replace all physical servers with virtual machines. Machine virtualization is not a new technology, but many computer rooms and ...
Get Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.