Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

2.2. Preplanning

Companies deploying virtualization or investigating its use do so with a specific project in mind. The project itself might vary in scope, but what the company hopes to accomplish falls into several buckets:

• Reducing power and cooling requirements in the datacenter by consolidating physical servers

• Avoiding the cost of deploying new servers into the datacenter

• Leveraging new capabilities around migration of workloads

Any specific project can fall into one or more of these buckets depending on the budget and time allotted.

2.2.1. Shifting from Physical to Virtual

One potential hurdle you must overcome with a virtualization project involves shifting from thinking about servers as physical entities in the datacenter to thinking ...