Creating a Windows Server that runs Hyper-V

Before you can start building virtual machines to use in your environment, first you need a virtualization host server on which Hyper-V will run. The first consideration to take into account is hardware. The hardware requirements for a server running Hyper-V depend on how many virtual servers you plan to run on top of this host platform. For example, the server that I am using for the lab environment shown throughout this book is an Intel i3 processor with only 8 GB of RAM. This is not at all conducive to a successful Hyper-V environment. I can only turn on four or five VMs at a time, each of them with very minimal amounts of memory per virtual machine. They all run quite slowly. Multiple Xeon processors with 100 GB of RAM or more will become criteria if you intend to run dozens of servers within your virtualized environment. Or perhaps you can meet somewhere in the middle of those numbers if you are running between one and 10 servers. There&apos...