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Virtualization and dedicated hardware

Virtualization and dedicated hardware - Windows Server Tutorial

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Virtualization and dedicated hardware

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- [Instructor] I'd like to explore a little more deeply the benefits and concerns that you should address when considering the decision between virtualization and installing Windows Server 2019 on dedicated hardware. Virtual servers can help you more fully utilize robust server hardware and it can help you get the most out of your server licensing costs. In fact, as you continue to read a list of Hyper-V features and options, you might start to wonder why people don't virtualize every Windows server every time. Consider this scenario in a data center. Let's say I have six servers that can be run as virtual machines. And I have three physical boxes to run them. This can be a resilient environment for these virtual servers, clustering the host machines and placing the virtual hard drive files on network storage can provide some nice fault tolerance. If one of my physical server decides one night that it's going to resign,…

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