Converting an Assessment into a Hardware Specification

We briefly discussed this subject near the end of the previous chapter. There we discussed the various performance metrics and the server specifications that were gathered during the assessment and allowed you to size the infrastructure. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit even predicted how many servers would be required to run the virtual workload, without including any redundancy in a possible cluster.

In this section, we will cover a little deeper the process that you can use to accurately size your Hyper-V infrastructure based on the information that you previously gathered in the assessment. Doing this requires understanding just how Hyper-V will consume some of the key resources. ...

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