This brings us to the end of the second chapter, and it's time to review what you learned. We reviewed the aspects and scenarios that encourage enterprises to adopt Hyper-V virtualization, primarily server consolidation and BCM. Organizations are also adopting Microsoft VDI as a Remote Desktop solution and looking at public cloud offerings in Windows Azure. Enterprises that have already adopted VMware virtualization are considering migrating to Hyper-V for all the known reasons.

In the next section, we discussed the design principles and parameters that should be considered before laying down a virtualization road map. Microsoft offers assessment tools, product design and deployment documentation, referred to as solution accelerators. These assist the customer in Hyper-V deployment to a great extent. We reviewed the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide (IPD) and the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit, and saw their merits.

Then we moved on to the installation routine...