Step Six: Design the Database Server and Database
The sixth step in the VMM planning process is to create and document the VMM database server and database design. The VMM database is used to store the configuration information for a VMM instance and any performance data that might be collected by VMM. In general, the workload impact to a SQL Server instance that is hosting the VMM database is relatively light. Therefore, the recommended hardware configuration for a database server that is supporting up to 8,000 virtual machines and 400 host servers is a dual-core machine with 8GB of RAM and 200GB of available disk space.
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Unlike the VMM server, the VMM database is stateful so the database server that is hosting it can be configured such ...
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