
Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Exchange 2013
Fabric Configuration
With Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, customers can make the best use of new and existing server
hardware investments by consolidating multiple workloads as separate virtual machines, reducing the
number of physical machines in the infrastructure and improving utilization. Windows Server 2012
provides a number of compelling capabilities to help organizations build scalable, high-performing, and
reliable virtualized infrastructure for their mission-critical workloads like Exchange 2013. This section
covers many of the enhancements in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V that can help organizations build an
optimized virtualized infrastructure.
Hardware Considerations
Hyper-V requires a 64-bit processor that includes hardware-assisted virtualization and hardware-enforced
Data Execution Prevention (DEP).
Hardware-assisted virtualization is available in processors that include an option to enable the
virtualization of host machines. The Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V role supports hardware-assisted
virtualization processers from the Intel VT and AMD-V processor families. Using this feature, WIndows
Server 2012 injects the hypervisor layer, Hyper-V, between the processors enabled with hardware-assisted
virtualization and the host operating system. This facilitates interaction between guest operating systems
and the underlying hardware via the host or main operating system for better performance and control
than a system without hardware-assisted virtualization support (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Full virtualization with Hyper-V
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