Specifications

Table of contents
Table of contents .......................................................... 2
Introduction ................................................................. 3
Virtualization and consolidation overview ........................ 3
What is virtualization? How can I use it to consolidate, and
what are the benefits? .................................................. 3
Why consolidate? ......................................................... 4
Hyper-V overview ...................................................... 10
Getting ready .............................................................. 15
Evaluating your servers for virtualization and consolidation
............................................................................... 15
Preparing your server ................................................... 18
Defining our environment ........................................... 18
Configuring the physical RAID disk layout ...................... 20
Installing Windows Server 2008 ................................... 22
Configuring the EqualLogic storage ............................... 24
Configuring the physical system drives ......................... 26
Installing the Hyper-V role .......................................... 27
Summing up ............................................................... 28
Appendix A. Example server and database consolidation
survey ........................................................................ 29
Appendix B. Installing Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Edition as the host OS .................................................. 31
Creating the RAID group for the host OS ....................... 31
Installing Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition .......... 31
Setting IP address, subnet mask, and domain information 34
Adding the Hyper-V role ............................................. 35
Appendix C. Configuring EqualLogic PS5000 storage ......... 36
Cabling and storage ................................................... 36
Installing the Host Integration Tools ............................. 36
Configuring your EqualLogic storage ............................. 37
About Principled Technologies ........................................ 41