Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
If you have a branch office with a limited number of servers, you may be faced with unique challenges. It may be necessary for you to isolate workloads – for example, your customer data may have to be isolated from your system data for regulatory compliance. It may be expensive or impractical to add physical machines to separate your workloads. You may have legacy applications that cannot be upgraded to a new operating system easily when new equipment is added. You may find that you have several underutilized servers; this adds unnecessary expense. Virtualization, the process of re-hosting applications in virtual machines, can help you address these challenges and help make your branch office more efficient.This deployment cookbook is written for you, the IT generalist at the branch office. The goal of this guide is to provide all of the steps and guidance necessary for you to successfully install and configure Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager—and to migrate workloads to a virtual machine.








