Chapter 3: Virtualizing Windows Server 2008
With virtualization establishing roots in data centers across the world, the time will come when systems and application administrators will be asked to design and deploy tier-1 applications in a virtual environment. Such tier-1 applications include Microsoft SQL, SharePoint, and Exchange, among others. The common factor among these applications is the requirement to run on the Microsoft Windows Server platform.
This chapter will focus on running the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system as a guest—the operating system running within the virtual machine—in a vSphere environment. Although the basic process of installing and configuring Microsoft operating systems in a virtual environment closely ...
