9. Step 5: Size and Place the Virtual Machine Manager Server, SQL Server-Based Server, Database, and Web Server

The goal of this step is to design the servers for each VMM instance that the project team identified in step 4. Design characteristics include each server’s form factor, size, physical placement and, where necessary, the fault-tolerance strategy.

Determining appropriate size, placement, and distribution of server roles is an important element in delivering the required monitoring functionality at a level of performance and fault tolerance that the organization expects.

The team completes the following tasks for each VMM instance:

  • Design the VMM server.

  • Design the database server. Multiple Virtual Machine Manager instances can share ...

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