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This page intentionally left blank Download at Introduction Windows Server 2008 shipped with several server roles that provide application services such as Active Directory, web services, thin client Terminal Services, video streaming media services, server virtualization services, and many others. This book focuses on the services specific to server virtualization called Hyper-V. Hyper-V enables an organization to consolidate several physical server systems into a single host server while still providing isolation between virtual guest session application operations. With an interest to decrease costs in managing their information technology (IT) infrastructure, organizations are virtualizing servers. Bringing multiple physical servers into a single host server. | This page intentionally left blank Download at Introduction Windows Server 2008 shipped with several server roles that provide application services such as Active Directory web services thin client Terminal Services video streaming media services server virtualization services and many others. This book focuses on the services specific to server virtualization called Hyper-V. Hyper-V enables an organization to consolidate several physical server systems into a single host server while still providing isolation between virtual guest session application operations. With an interest to decrease costs in managing their information technology IT infrastructure organizations are virtualizing servers. Bringing multiple physical servers into a single host server decreases the cost of purchasing and maintaining multiple physical server systems decreases the cost of electricity and air-cooling systems to maintain the physical servers and enables an organization to go green by decreasing the use of natural resources in the operation of physical server systems . In addition to covering Hyper-V virtualization in this book the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 VMM 2008 product is also covered. VMM 2008 adds management capabilities to Hyper-V. VMM 2008 enables an administrator view and administer virtual guest sessions more easily delegate administrative rights to others in the management of guest sessions and use helpful tools to perform specific functions and tasks. Specific functions and tasks supported in VMM 2008 include the ability to take a production server and convert the server to a virtual guest image. In addition VMM 2008 will take an existing virtual session and convert the image into a Hyper-V virtual guest Download at 2 INTRODUCTION session. These tools make managing administering and supporting a Hyper-V session much easier for the administrator. The authors of this book had the opportunity to work with Windows Server .