Now that we know how to deploy Hyper-V hosts and manage them accordingly, it's time to learn how to deploy workloads on the hosts. Before we do let's revisit the definition of a virtual machine from Chapter 1, Introducing Release 2.0.
A virtual machine is an emulation of a physical computer, and it runs as an isolated operating system container (partition), serving as a physical machine.
The objective of creating virtual machines is to host more than one guest machine on a physical machine (host) thereby effectively allocating its resources amongst the VMs as per their specified hardware profile. As discussed in the previous chapter, after the performance sampling of the server workloads, it is determined which machines can be consolidated and hosted on Hyper-V hosts. We can either create the VMs or convert the server workloads to VMs as deemed suitable per the design and migration strategy. The methods to create or convert VM are either console driven...