© Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway 2018
Andy Syrewicze and Richard SiddawayPro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4116-5_1

1. Introduction to Hyper-V

Andy Syrewicze1  and Richard Siddaway2
(1)
Jenison, MI, USA
(2)
Baston, Lincolnshire, UK
 

Do you remember the days of physical servers? Generally, the rule of thumb was to have one major role or application per server. That was mainly because many applications and services just did not play well together. They had to be separated, so that they couldn’t fight among themselves and cause problems for users on the network. The unfortunate side effect of this practice was that all of these physical servers were, on average, utilizing 20% of their resources, meaning 80% of those resources ...

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