Creating hosts and VMs

When we start out trying to find the right hardware to support our SharePoint environment, we must have a SharePoint architecture as described in the first chapters of this book. If you have fully read Chapter 2, Planning and Architecture, you will recall that we looked at many scenarios to form an architecture for our SharePoint environment. We looked at our old environments, new features, changing features, and other aspects where there is a need for a change in strategies, such as Remote Blob Storage, so that we plan our new environment according to the needs of our users, administrators, management, and stakeholders, which is based on the current state and new requirements.

Host and VM configurations are the backbone of your server architecture and are the first step in starting to build a platform to support our farm. SharePoint runs well on hardware built to support it, as in any application, but the difference with SharePoint is that it covers...