16.3. Installation of the MED-V Solution Server Components

The server architecture used for this MED-V solution example comprises three servers: ServerA, the Image Repository Server; ServerB, the Database Server; and ServerC, the MED-V Management Server. The installation process begins with installing IIS and BITS Server Extensions on ServerA. The next step is to install SQL Server 2008 Express on ServerB. We then install the MED-V Management Server on ServerC. Administrator rights are required for all of these operations. As mentioned before, a key assumption made regarding the installation environment is the existence of AD, DNS, and DHCP infrastructure services that are required to support this solution. A flowchart of the server installation ...

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