Planning your environment

Besides the organizational skill needed for a successful Hyper-V project, there are some helpful tools that can help in most cases with the technical details. For answering questions such as how many hosts I will need for my Hyper-V setup, how many CPUs and how much RAM is needed, and what bandwidth is needed on my network, I commonly use the free Solution Accelerator, Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP Toolkit) by Microsoft (downloadable at the shortlink http://bit.ly/1lzt2mJ). The MAP Toolkit is shown in the following screenshot:

Planning your environment

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tools

The easy-to-use MAP Toolkit does a full ...

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