Chapter 8

Virtualization Scenarios

No matter how well any self-service or management systems are implemented, the success or failure of the Hyper-V project will depend on how well the organization's applications perform in their virtual machines.

You need to be able to understand how components of your hardware and Hyper-V design and implementation will affect the performance of your virtual machines. The subjects of hardware and Hyper-V have been dealt with at this point. We need to cover the often forgotten part of the discussion.

All too often, virtualization engineers will forget to consider the individual needs of virtual machines and applications. Applications will have support statements and supported configurations. Hardware designs for ...

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