Designing Virtual Machines

There are many variations of the anecdote where some organization that deployed a line-of-business application on some hardware virtualization solution noticed unacceptable performance. Depending on the story, either they reversed the decision to convert/deploy the servers as virtual machines or they hired an expensive consultant to investigate. The consultant would identify a few issues, make some changes, and suddenly everything would perform as expected.

The goal of this chapter is to put you in a position to understand what opportunities and pitfalls may lay ahead in a Hyper-V project when it comes to the specifications and configurations of individual virtual machines. Some of these have been discussed already, ...

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