The Enterprise Engineering Center Blog : Virtualization

Scale testing the world's largest PKI, all on WS08/R2 and Hyper-V

EEC — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:31:00 GMT

This week, we’ve been in the EEC doing our scale testing on the world’s largest PKI, issuing 100s of millions of certificates from 100s of CAs to devices around the world. The entire design is built on WS08R2 Hyper-V and WS08/WS08R2 CAs. To simulate one...(read more)

Hyper-V Support, Performance and Load Tools

EEC — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:05:00 GMT

During one of our engagements with Tuev Nord , (one of the world’s largest technical service providers of the Mobility, Industrial Services, International, Natural Resources and Training and Human Resources fields), the Windows Server Hyper-V feature...(read more)

UC Releases OCS R2 Site Resiliency White paper

EEC — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:51:00 GMT

Earlier this year the Office Communications Group (OCG) approached the EEC and our Partners ( HP , F5 and Shunra ) to help them build an environment where they could perform the necessary testing to create this much needed white paper. This was a challenging...(read more)

Sun releases Virtualizing Windows on Sun Ray Thin Client White Paper

EEC — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:24:00 GMT

As part of the expansion of the EEC, our team looked at a way to improve the customers’ experience of accessing their virtualized environments to perform their testing while at the EEC or from a remote location. We have accomplished this with our VDI...(read more)

Virtualized Exchange Saves Power

EEC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:25:00 GMT

Earlier this year, Rob Simpson, Exchange Program Manager completed some testing while at the EEC to document the power savings that are possible when you virtualize your Exchange environment. What he found was that you can have a 50% power savings with...(read more)

OCS Team Announces Support for Virtualization in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

EEC — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:09:00 GMT

This past Wednesday, the Office Communications Server team announced via the OCS Team Blog , that they are now supporting server virtualization in Office Communications Server 2007 R2. This is a major step for the OCS team and great news for their customers....(read more)

Dell™ Case Study on Reducing Spending on Power, Hardware & Software

EEC — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:10:00 GMT

Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting, led by Terry Storey, Senior Global Architect for the Dell Microsoft Practice, has been collaborating with the Windows Server and Client product groups since April 2008 on validating the release of Windows Server®...(read more)

Performance and Capacity Requirements for SharePoint on Hyper-V

EEC — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:12:00 GMT

Back in September the SharePoint Product Group came to the EEC to do some testing of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Hyper-V™ virtual environment. Their goal was to gather performance and capacity data for our customers to use in their evaluation...(read more)