C.5. Virtual Machine Best Practices
The following virtual machine best practices are collected from the full recommendations found in Chapters 7, 8, 10, and 13:
Construct virtual machines with separate drives for operating systems and user data, and use separate virtual SCSI adapters for drives that have higher I/O requirements.
Always install VMware Tools to provide the optimized SCSI drivers, enhanced virtual NIC drivers, the balloon driver, and support for quiescing the file system during the VMware snapshot process.
Use the VMware Tools to complement the Windows Time Services to synchronize the time on a virtual machine. The Windows Server computer functioning as the PDC emulator operations master should be configured to synchronize time with ...
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