More and more companies are using virtualization to deploy server applications like Microsoft® SQL Server®, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server as well as packaged and custom Line of Business (LOB) applications. These customers can recognize significant benefits including increased resource utilization, enhanced business continuity, and a more efficient management solution.

Microsoft Virtualization provides the best choice for virtualizing Microsoft server applications with recommended deployment scenarios that increase deployment options with one-stop support and offer a complete management solution at a competitively low cost.

Microsoft Virtualization solutions help place your company on the leading edge of technology

Microsoft Server Applications

Virtualization for Microsoft Server Applications

Key Benefits with Microsoft Virtualization

Microsoft Server Applications Built for Windows® The built-in architecture of Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™ means there

is no need for an additional hypervisor purchase and you also benefit from one-stop support. Features from server applications and Windows server together help provide increased deployment options. Additionally, our broad network of experienced Microsoft partners can provide support by rapidly responding to your diverse business needs.

Complete Management Solution Microsoft Virtualization offers you a complete end-to-end management solution.

It enables you to optimize your assets, and centrally monitor and manage all of your physical and virtual resources across multiple hypervisors from the hardware to the application level. With Microsoft® System Center, you will have the ability to patch and deploy your applications with System Center Configuration Manager and access best practices and deep knowledge through System Center Operations Manager management packs. Additionally, System Center delivers a backup and recovery solution with System Center Data Protection Manager and dynamic management of virtualized infrastructure through System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) packs.

Low Cost Complete Solution Because a comparable virtualization solution can cost up to six times more than Microsoft Virtualization*, organizations worldwide are using Microsoft Virtualization to help reduce costs and deliver greater value. You can simplify your IT infrastructure and processes, resulting in lower ongoing costs by saving on space, power, and resources. Microsoft also offers virtualization-friendly licensing specifically designed for your virtualization needs, allowing you to move virtualized applications to a different server when you require without licensing restrictions.

*Based on a comparison of Microsoft® System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter with VMware’s vSphere

Enterprise Plus with VMware vCenter Server. Assumes a five host configuration, 2 processors on each host, 2 years support costs for both products, and no operating system costs included. The Microsoft solution can use either the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hypervisor or an existing Windows Server 2008 R2 hypervisor. Based on Microsoft estimated retail prices and published VMware prices available at https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore as of 08/04/2009 for purchases in the United States. Actual reseller prices may vary.

Microsoft Virtualization — the best choice for your Microsoft server applications

Microsoft Server Applications

Microsoft Virtualization Products

“Hyper-V on one Sun Fire x64 server supported Exchange Server

2007 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, an environment that

typically requires 16 servers. With this kind of performance,

there’s no doubt that Hyper-V is enterprise ready.”

Patrick Cimprich,

Chief Architect of

Enterprise Technology Solutions

Avanade

Description and Benefits

▪ Affordable disaster

recovery solution using virtualization for a warm site

▪ Use of Exchange Server

high availability capabilities and consolida-tion with virtualization

▪ Possibly reduce physical

servers from 8 to 3

▪ Power and space savings

Help reduce hardware and maintenance costs with a flexible server consolidation solution. Centralize data services on fewer physical servers and leverage virtualization for high availability.

SQL Server® can be deployed in a pure virtual or a mixed physical and virtual environment depending on the flexibility and service levels you require. Consolidate database servers and improve business continuity by using a combination of Windows Server® Hyper-V™ and SQL Server® technologies such as live migration, guest clustering, and database mirroring. Perform rapid provisioning and scale-out Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure components such as OLAP cubes and reporting services. Streamline development, testing, and staging environments for database applications.

Learn More Virtualization customer site: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/solutions/

business-critical-applications

Virtualization resources: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/resources

Your IT department can build and manage scalable Office SharePoint® Server farms to provide for an infrastructure that supports collaboration and content management. SharePoint® architects can create a deployment model that is reliable and scalable without introducing unnecessary costs or over-architecting the environment.

All SharePoint® roles are supported for virtualization, however certain roles make better virtualization candidates than others. SharePoint® Web, Query, and Application roles are the best candidates for virtualization, whereas Index and Database roles can be deployed as physical or virtual depending on resource needs.

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For most businesses today, e-mail is the mission critical communication tool. Virtualization offers IT professionals new options to provide deployment flexibility and realize the benefits in terms of reduced hardware and energy costs.

Exchange Client-Access Server (CAS), Hub Transport, Mailbox roles which are underutilized are best candidates for virtualization. Additionally, the Edge Transport role along with other security gateways on the edge server can be considered for virtualization to maximize hardware utilization.

SQL Server® High Availability with Live Migration Microsoft Virtualization for SQL Server®

Microsoft Virtualization for SharePoint®

Microsoft Virtualization for Exchange Server

Some Common Virtualization Scenarios

Description and Benefits

▪ Provide SQL Server® high

availability with clustering and live migration

▪ With live migration,

transparently move running virtual machines (VMs) between hosts in a cluster without interruption of service

▪ Utilize Hyper-V™ to

consolidate SQL Servers running in VMs

Description and Benefits

▪ Use a mixed physical and

virtual environment to deploy a large production SharePoint® farm with high availability

▪ Development and test

farms can be deployed fully virtualized

▪ Manage physical and

virtual infrastructure with System Center

Microsoft Server Applications

Remote Site with Disaster Recovery for Exchange Server

Development, Test and Production SharePoint® Farms