<li>'''Decide why ''' you want to virtualize - while beneficial for having many servers and optimizing hardware usage, it does require more computer power and isn't always compatible with the things you might want to do with your VMs, such as CD-ROM pass-thru.</li><li>'''Gather quality hardware ''' and check everything. Something as simple as a bad RAM stick will wreak havoc on your VMs.</li><li>'''Don't immediately move your production/important files or apps to your new VM'''. You must test for at least a day or so, and have a comfort level before relying on your VM inside your new virtualization host.</li><li>'''Decide ahead of time ''' if you intend on using Greyhole drive pooling or not, with your Amahi VM. This will change how you, A) setup your hypervisor/host and, B) how you setup Amahi</li><li>'''Suggested hardware for a hypervisor ''' to run at least 4 VMs would be<br />- quad-core CPU or more<br />- 8GB of RAM (gives room to grow)<br />- lots of storage, across several drives (consider your base OS, and then the VM images themselves, and possible additional storage images or entire drives)<br />- Gigabit NIC (at least one, strongly suggested at gigabit speeds to accommodate traffic from several VMs.</li>