Step Seven: Design the Self-Service Portal Web Server(s)

The seventh step in the VMM planning process is to determine the Self-Service Portal web server design. As discussed previously in this chapter, the Self-Service Portal allows users to provision and manage their own virtual machines with administrator intervention. Like other VMM components, the Self-Service Portal is a relatively lightweight application. Therefore, the recommended hardware configuration is a dual-core machine with 2GB of RAM.

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