Server Virtualization Research Library

With the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, organizations have access to new capabilities such as Live Migration and Windows Powershell 2.0 that will reduce the cost of datacenter operations, enhance security and availability, while improving server environment manageability. The opportunity for organizations is to scale these benefits to their entire server and datacenter infrastructure while maximizing the use of their resources through new approaches such as server virtualization. However, the need to rapidly scale deployment out to hundreds or thousands of servers, without impacting already tight budgets, must be met. With almost 70 percent of organizations continuing to rely on manual labor for datacenter server management, organizations have not yet dealt with this challenge. In this paper, learn how to use System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Deployment to automate the deployment of Windows Server 2008 – through native integration with these new deployment processes and tools.