Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

Chapter 1. Getting to Know Microsoft Hyper-V

In the previous section of the book, we tried to get ourselves familiar with virtualization, server consolidation, and cloud computing concepts. These concepts play a vital role in today's virtualized infrastructure of every organization, whether it's a small to medium size organization or a multinational enterprise. We also saw how server consolidation helps organizations to tailor their needs to consolidate their widespread server farm from underutilized to a consolidated few physical servers (hypervisors). Server consolidation also provides another way of allowing legacy applications to be run on the newer hardware and efficiently migrating the legacy server to run as a virtual machine (VM), which ...