Microsoft TechEd India 2010 Session: Virtualization Solutions for Business Critical Applications

First of all, Thank YOU all for attending the Microsoft TechEd 2010 India. It was pleasure presenting in front of such a superb audience. I am extremely happy with the response for the TechEd 2010. I will talk about it in later posts.

Now, as I promised for today’s session few of the resources and links that I would like to share with you all.

Starting with the Best Practices for Hyper-V…

7 Best Practices for Physical Servers Hosting Hyper-V Roles
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd744830.aspx

Microsoft Virtualization for Business Critical Apps
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/solution-business-apps.aspx

Microsoft Virtualization Case Studies
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/case-studies-featured.aspx

Microsoft Integrated Virtualization ROI Tool
https://roianalyst.alinean.com/microsoft/virtualization/

Well, that is all from my end for now. Keep checking the space for much more happening discussions.

Update 0: Download this document that describes the best practices for SAP on Hyper-V and MS.COM Site operations in Hyper-V Environment

Best Practices for SAP on Hyper-V

MSDN & TechNet Powered by Hyper-V Whitepaper - Microsoft Corporation

Update 1: I received 1 more query during my session in MS Dynamics CRM & AX running in Virtualized mode.

Here is the link that gives detailed information on all the supported Microsoft products under Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-app-support.aspx

For more information visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006

List of Supported Applications…

Supported Applications

Support for the listed applications is provided for the applications running on Hyper-V and other validated virtualization platforms.

The following applications are supported on Hyper-V:

• Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 and later versions such as Management Server, Publishing Server, Sequencer, RDS Client, and Desktop Client are supported.

• Microsoft Commerce Server Service Pack 2 and later

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and later

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and later

• Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 SP2 and later

• Microsoft Forefront Client Security

• Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint (FSP) SP2 or later

• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server

• Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP2 or later

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 or later

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 or later

• Microsoft Search Server

• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or later

• Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 or later

• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 or later

• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 and later

• Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP2

• Windows Web Server 2008

• Windows Web Server 2008 R2

• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, 2006, 2006 R2, 2009 and later

• Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and later

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and later

• Microsoft Forefront Client Security

• Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange (FSE) SP1 or later

• Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 or later

• Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 SP1 or later

• Microsoft Office Project Server SP1 or later

• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 SP1 (Agents Only)

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008

• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 and later

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and later

• Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 SP3 (agents only)

• Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008

• Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.1 and later

• Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and later

• Windows Small Business Server 2008 and later