TABLE OF CONTENTS To manage a virtual server, you use the Virtual Server Administration Web site, available on each and every Virtual Server host. If you do not want to install the Administration Web site on every host or want to automate administration tasks, you have several options to choose from.
By now you should be familiar with the management interface of Virtual Server. configuration management of Virtual Server as well as that of each virtual machine from a graphical user interface can only be done from the Virtual Server Administration Web site. As the name clearly implies, this management requires a Web server which, in this case, is Internet Information Services.
| Note | The next generation of virtualization product, Windows Server Virtualization, no longer requires Internet Information Server. The management interface is completely based on Microsoft Management Console 3.0. New releases of Virtual Server 2005 R2, of which Service Pack 1 is the next update to be released in 2006, will still require Internet Information Services. However, Microsoft has announced a virtual machine management product called System Center Virtual Machine Manager. This product will be able to manage both Virtual Server 2005 and Windows Server Virtualization installations. |
You can install Virtual Server on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. Windows Server 2003 comes with Internet Information Services 6.0 and Windows XP Professional comes with Internet Information Services 5.1.
| Note | Virtual Server on Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 is not supported for production... |
