VM Install

Today I spent 4 hours listening to Microsoft technicians talk about Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and System Center. Here are some of the key notes I took about Hyper-V:   Licensing for Microsoft Server 2008 includes (1P + 1V) – This mean you can have 1 physical Microsoft Server 2008 running Hyper-V and 1 [...]

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Like a new mom and dad, have you given any thought to what naming standards you plan to use for your new virtual environment? Right, I said naming standards because you will have to have names for the VirtualCenter or VMM, datacenter, clusters, data stores (LUNs), ESX or Hyper-V host servers, VLAN tags, VM guests, [...]

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