10. Step 6: Size and Place the Library Servers and Libraries

The Virtual Machine Manager library is a set of resources that can be used to create and configure VMs. Libraries can include the following:

  • Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) and Virtual Machine Configuration (VMC) files

  • VM templates and guest operating system profiles

  • Scripts and sysprep answer files

  • ISO image files

  • Virtual floppy disks

The VMM library server is a file server with one or more shares. A VMM agent runs on the file server; which defines it as a VMM library server and provides communication with the VMM server that defines the VMM instance. Only one VMM agent can be run on each library server, so the library server can connect to only one VMM server. But a VMM server can be connected ...

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