With the drive to reduce cost through virtualization of physical systems, the temptation is to virtualize all of your enterprise applications, and why not? Optimization of an enterprise investment in hardware infrastructure is a key driving force behind the movement. When you move from a physical server to a virtual server there are a number of design/build points to take into consideration. In the recently delivered Jump Start: Exam 70-659: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization course presented by Symon Perriman and I, we were asked a number of questions on building virtual machines (VM) for various applications. Here are some of the tips we provided:
