Virtual Machine Configuration Report - Comprehensive Analysis

This report provides a detailed analysis of virtual machine configuration, focusing on key components and infrastructure. It begins with an introduction to virtual machines and their functionality, explaining how they simulate a computer within another computer. The report then outlines the configuration of various elements, including domain controllers using a Single Forest Single Domain Active Directory model, Microsoft Exchange servers, web servers, application servers, and database servers. It also covers the configuration of firewalls, routers, switches, and VoIP infrastructure. The report provides insights into the technologies and software used for virtualization, such as Hyper-V and VMware. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing the importance of virtual machines in modern computing environments and their ability to manage virtual hardware components including CPU, memory, network interface, and hard drive. The document also includes a list of references for further study.

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Table of Contents
Virtual Machine:........................................................................................................................2
Virtual machine configuration:..................................................................................................2
Domain controllers with a Single Forest Single Domain Active Directory model:..............2
Microsoft Exchange server:...................................................................................................2
Web servers:...........................................................................................................................3
Application servers:...............................................................................................................3
Database Servers:...................................................................................................................3
Firewalls:................................................................................................................................4
Routers:..................................................................................................................................4
Switches:................................................................................................................................4
VoIP infrastructure:................................................................................................................5
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................5
References:.................................................................................................................................6

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Virtual Machine:
A virtual machine is creating a computer within another computer that can behave as
the actual computer. This runs within a window, such as any other programme. The purpose
of this paper is to develop a plan for virtual technology (Felter et al., 2015). Multiple virtual
machines can simultaneously run on a single computer. Each of the virtual machines can
provide the virtual hardware of their own.
Virtual machine configuration:
Domain controllers with a Single Forest Single Domain Active Directory model:
For configuring virtual machine Hyper-V server is needed for virtualizing the domain
controllers. For using and installing the Hyper-V role, the following things needs to be
having.
 An x64 processor: The Hyper-V is having the availability in 64 bit versions of the
Windows server 2008 or later.
 Hardware Data Execution Protection (DEP): The DEP has to be enabled and
available. The user has to enable Intel XD bit or AMD NX bit.
 Hardware-assisted virtualization: This feature having the availability in the
processor which include an option for virtualization such as Intel VT or AMD-V.
Microsoft Exchange server:
The Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2019 and Exchange Server 2016 can be
deployed in an environment that is virtualized (Tarasov et al., 2013). There are several terms
that are used such as Cold boot, Planned migration and Saved state.
Web servers:
Any of the web servers can run within the virtual machine.

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 Microsoft Service Fabric Cluster
 Microsoft windows server
 Ubuntu Server
 Fedora
 Cloud boost
 Logentries
 Red hat enterprise Linux
 Yellowfin for Azure
 Chef Server 12
 Hortonworks Data perform standard.
Application servers:
There are so many application servers for virtualization.
 Hyper-V
 VMware ESXi
 Oracle VM server for x86
 Microsoft App-V
 VMware vSphere.
From the above list, VMware is the most popular software that is used for virtualization.
Database Servers:
The organized collection of the information and data is known as a database. This is
important really to organise data as well as different database models (Pfaff & Davie, 2013).
Oracle RDBMS
IBM DB2
Microsoft SQL Server

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SAP Sybase ASE
Teradata
ADABAS
MySQL
FileMaker
Firewalls:
A firewall appliance is the combination of the software that is related to the firewall
as well as an operating system which has been built purposely for running a firewall on a
virtual machine (Balmer et al., 2014).
 Check Point
 Fort iGATE
 Palo Alto Networks
 WatchGuard
 Sophos
 Cisco Asa Firepower.
Routers:
 Cisco 2000 Series Connected Grid
 Cisco 1100 Series Industrial Integrated Services
 Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid
Switches:
Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series
Cisco Catalyst 3560-CX Series

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VoIP infrastructure:
Such as the traditional applications, the VoIP is having zero tolerance for the latency
and packet loss or lapses in service quality. The MIXvoip company developed the concept of
super nodes cluster (SNC) and super node (SN) for the enrichment of the features for the
telephone exchanges (Gritzalis et al., 2013). The popular most private branch exchange
(PBX) is Asterisk, it includes all the components that are necessary for building scalable
phone systems.
Conclusion:
Thus it can be concluded from the above report that the emulation engine of the
virtual machine which is also known as the hypervisor. It is having the ability to handle the
virtual hardware that also includes memory, CPU, network interface, hard drive etc. The
virtual hardware devices are provided by the hypervisor map to the actual hardware on a
physical machine.

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