I seem to be getting a lot of requests for these reports lately so I thought I’d document the URL to find these for reference on this blog.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/datacenter/virtualization-enterprise-applications.aspx

Most recently, the addition of Exchange 2013 performance on Hyper-V was just posted:

Summary of the testing is:

ESG Lab performed hands-on testing of a virtualized tier-1 Exchange 2013 application workload. The workload used was designed to emulate thousands of Exchange users performing typical activities including sending and receiving e-mails, making calendar entries, updating contacts, and managing to-do lists. The storage activity of up to 48,000 typical Exchange users was tested using a single physical server hosting up to twelve Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V virtual machines.

Key findings included:

· Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V supported the needs of 48,000 emulated Exchange mailboxes.

· Performance scaled linearly from two to 12 virtual machines on a single server, as sustained IOPS reached a maximum of 5,894—over 60% more than the targeted IOPS rate of 3,600.

· Response times remained manageably low reaching a maximum of 15.31 milliseconds. This was well under the Microsoft maximum threshold guideline of 20 milliseconds for Exchange database reads.

· The I/O efficiency improvements in Exchange 2013 reduce the cost of delivering e-mail support in mixed virtual server environments. ESG Lab supported up to 48,000 mailboxes on 12 virtualized Exchange servers on a single Dell M620 blade server.

ESG Lab confirmed that the improved IOPS performance efficiency of Exchange 2013 and the manageably low IOPS overhead of Microsoft Server 2012 with Hyper-V can be used to consolidate tier-1 e-mail application workloads with confidence. A single server hosting a virtualized Exchange infrastructure deployed within twelve Hyper-V virtual machines supported the I/O requirements of up to 48,000 simulated Exchange users with excellent response times.

The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start course Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration on Thursday, March 14^th from 8am – 12pm PST. 

This is a live, public, free, online event so ask your customers to sign up today: http://aka.ms/vmtools.  This event will be recorded and available on the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) several weeks later, so even if you cannot make the live event, sign up so that you receive a notification once the course is available on the MVA.

This course is designed for IT professionals who need to manage, monitor and automate VMware in their datacenter using System Center 2012 SP1.  During this half-day Jump Start, Microsoft Technical Evangelist Symon Perriman (MCSE and VMware Certified Professional) will be joined by four different Microsoft and VMware experts during the team-taught learning experience.  First, Eric Winner will share how Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and App Controller can run VMware infrastructure, hypervisor and VMs.  Next Michael Stafford from Veeam will show how the Veeam Management Pack for Operations Manager monitors and reports on the VMware infrastructure.  Third, Justin Incarnato demonstrates how VMware can be integrated and automated using Orchestrator.  Finally, Anupama Vedapuri walks through the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC), a free Solution Accelerator that converts VMware-based VMs and disks to Hyper-V.

Agenda

·         8am – 9am | Manage VMware with SC2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager

·         9am – 10am | Monitor VMware with SC2012 SP1 Operations Manager and Veeam

·         10am – 11am | Automate VMware with SC2012 SP1 Orchestrator

·         11am – 12pm | Migrate VMware VMs using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC)

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Also check out previous virtualization Jump Start events which are now available on the MVA:

·         “Introduction to Hyper-V” Jump Start (with Symon Perriman and Jeff Woolsey) 

·         “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Jump Start (with Symon Perriman and Matt McSpirit)