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- What Is Server Virtualization and Microsoft Hyper-V?
- Choosing to Virtualize Servers
- Understanding Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy
- What's New in Hyper-V
- Determining What Is Needed to Virtualize Servers
- The Right Time to Implement Hyper-V
- Migrating from Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and VMware
- Understanding the Administration of Virtual Guest Sessions
- Ensuring High Availability of a Hyper-V Host Server
- Summary
- Best Practices
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
- Consolidate physical servers down to virtual guest sessions to decrease the number of physical servers in an organization, and thus ultimately lower electrical costs, server management costs, and rack-space costs associated with sprawling physical server systems.
- Although server consolidation will decrease the number of servers in the environment, take the opportunity to repurpose servers and implement high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies within the environment.
- Consider using the native high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies built in to applications (such as Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication and SQL 2005 Mirror) to establish reliable application servers in a networking environment.
- Use the built-in virtual switch technology in Hyper-V to segment guest servers and associate segments to specific network adapters on the host server for better internetworking communications.
- Dedicate core processors to virtual guest sessions to guarantee processing performance to virtual sessions that require high processing capabilities.
- Consider using Windows 2008 Server Core for the basis of the Hyper-V host server to minimize the attack surface of a host server by removing the GUI from the host system.
- Install the guest integration support tools after installing the guest operating system to take advantage of optimized drivers and session administration functions.
- Use the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 tool to migrate physical and virtual servers into native Hyper-V virtual guest images.
- When considering adding a Windows 2008 server to an existing Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory environment, consider implementing Hyper-V virtualization, which has proven to be pretty easy to implement and provides a lot of value to organizations.
- Consider using the snapshot capabilities built in to the Hyper-V Administration tool before patching or upgrading a virtual server system. That way, if you need to roll back, you can roll back to a copy of the virtual image right before the update was applied.
- Use Terminal Services in Windows 2008 to provide administrators direct access to a limited number of servers they need to remotely access.
- Use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to create administration and delegation groups for the centralized administration management of server systems.
- Leverage the capabilities of stretch clustering in Windows Server 2008 to provide redundancy across a WAN link for virtual guest sessions clustered between multiple host servers.
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