{"id":86,"date":"2006-10-01T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-09-03T20:09:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T01:09:59","slug":"optimizing-microsoft-virtual-server-series-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2006\/10\/optimizing-microsoft-virtual-server-series-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing Microsoft Virtual Server: Series Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article was first published on <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com\/\"><em>SearchServerVirtualization.TechTarget.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Issues related to performance rank high on the list of technical concerns related to virtualization. Organizations are often ready to jump toward the use of virtual machines, as long as they can be sure that their applications will continue to perform well. While it\u2019s a fact that virtualization overhead is inevitable, it\u2019s more important to understand how to address bottlenecks and increase performance.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, this sounds like the not-so-good old days, where systems administrators would go to great lengths to squeeze the maximum performance out of 64MB of RAM on a mid-range server. While hardware constraints are nowhere near as tight as they used to be, it\u2019s still up to IT staff to get the highest performance out of their systems. Fortunately, there are many ways to reach this goal.<\/p>\n<p>This series of articles will focus on strategies for optimizing the performance of virtual machines running on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. While most of the general tips apply to other virtualization platforms (such as VMware and Xen), I\u2019ll focus on Microsoft\u2019s platform when illustrating specifics. I\u2019ll cover methods to optimize CPU, memory, disk, and network performance. The goal is to help you manage and optimize performance based on Virtual Server\u2019s architecture and your business and technical needs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The articles in this series assume that you\u2019re already familiar with the Virtual Server platform and have experience working with virtual hard disks, virtual networks, and other settings. If you\u2019re new to virtualization, be sure to check out my previous series of articles: \u201cVirtual Server: From the Ground Up\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was first published on SearchServerVirtualization.TechTarget.com. Issues related to performance rank high on the list of technical concerns related to virtualization. Organizations are often ready to jump toward the use of virtual machines, as long as they can be sure that their applications will continue to perform well. While it\u2019s a fact that virtualization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-virtual-server","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}