The Bottom Line

Understand the need to assess the existing infrastructure An assessment is a necessary step in any hardware virtualization project where there is an existing physical infrastructure to convert into virtual machines.

Master It You are one of a team of engineers that is designing and deploying a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V infrastructure in a very large organization. Your objectives from management are to consolidate the infrastructure as much as possible with no negative impact on performance. Overspending on the project will not be tolerated because of economic conditions. One of your colleagues wants to start the installation now without performing an assessment. How will you argue for an assessment?

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