Issue link: http://hub-fr.insight.com/i/532074
72 business groups how you're providing greater uptime and performance while improving the bottom line by managing capacity and efficiency in your virtual data center. Optimize VMs So They're Stable and Efficient With your virtualization infrastructure and management platform ready to run your workloads, it's time to start deploying VMs. Here are some tips to help you get started with building efficient, stable VMs. ✓ Choose which VMs will be directly converted from physical servers (a physical-to-virtual migration, or P2V). While many servers can be directly converted, this may also be a good time to consider a clean-install of the operating system and application, so only your data is migrated. ✓ Develop template VMs that include your most common OS, security settings, patches and applications. By using a template to deploy new VMs, you ensure that all of your new VMs conform to a standardized, known- good configuration. ✓ Optimize how CPU and memory resources are allo- cated for VMs. Use resource settings (reservations, shares, limits) only if needed. ✓ Optimize your guest operating systems. ✓ Use only the guest operating systems that are sup- ported by your hypervisor. ✓ Disable screen savers and animations on Windows and disable X Servers on Linux if they're not being used.