Mastering: Hyper-V™ Deployment

Chapter 11

The Small and Medium Business

You could be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft only thought of huge corporations and government departments when designing Hyper-V. In fact, it's difficult to find mention of small or medium businesses in the marketing material for Hyper-V, and so far in the book, we have talked about Hyper-V clusters with up to 1,000 virtual machines, expensive storage solutions, and Microsoft System Center products that appear to be reserved for large networks.

The truth is that the vast majority of Microsoft's customers are small and medium businesses. These same customers face all of the same challenges that international corporations do. You could say that they feel the pain even more because downtime and high ...