Virtualizing Microsoft Tier 1 Applications with VMware vSphere 4 [Paperback]

Charles A. Windom (Author), Hemant Gaidhani (Author), Alex Fontana (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0470563605 | ISBN-13: 978-0470563601 | Edition: 1

Virtualize mission-critical Microsoft applications

How do you safely deploy Tier 1 apps in virtual environments? In this in-depth guide, VMware insiders Charles A. Windom, Hemant Gaidhani, and Alex Fontana show you how. Focusing on Microsoft applications, they guide you step by step through a Proof of Concept for virtualizing Windows Server, Active Directory, Internet Information Services, Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Remote Desktop Services—all on the VMware vSphere 4 platform.

You'll find out what to consider for each application before you virtualize it, and learn how to perform VM backup using VMware Data Recovery, Windows patch management using VMware Update Manager, application performance monitoring using VMware Appspeed, and more. Topics include:

A Thorough Overview of VMware vSphere 4

• Infrastructure Services

• Application Services

• Management Services (part of VMware vCenter Server)

Virtualizing Windows Server 2008

• Choose virtual hardware and learn how to add sufficient CPU and memory

• Run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as a guest inside the vSphere environment

• Protect your applications and data and deliver high availability using Failover Clustering and Windows Network Load Balancing

Virtualizing Other Microsoft Applications

• Active Directory

• Internet Information Services 7.0

• Exchange Server 2007 and 2010

• SQL Server 2005 and 2008

• SharePoint Server 2007

• Remote Desktop Services 2008 R2

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Charles A. Windom, MCSE, is the Microsoft Solution Architect at VMware, Inc. Before joining VMware, Charles worked for 29 years for such companies as Brocade, Compaq, Siebel, Taos, and Hitachi Data Systems, designing and implementing solutions including Microsoft infrastructure and applications. He has been Microsoft-certified since 1990. Hemant Gaidhani is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at VMware, Inc., with extensive experience in software development and performance engineering. He has been instrumental in developing best practices for several multi-tier enterprise applications in VMware environments. In addition, Hemant has over 18 years of experience working for high-technology companies such as Informix, Commerce One, and EMC. Alex Fontana is a Technical Solutions Architect at VMware, with a focus on virtualizing Microsoft Tier 1 applications. He has worked in the information technology industry for over 10 years, including five years designing and deploying Microsoft applications on VMware technologies. He holds VMware, Microsoft, and ITIL certifications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (August 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470563605
• ISBN-13: 978-0470563601
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #948,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A recommended book for each VMware Administrator September 24, 2010

By Yuval Sinay

Format:Paperback

The book provides a nice "Best Practice" solutions for VMware Administrator.
Some of the information in this book appear usually in the high level course of VMware ESX, so
this book can also help you to save money :)
I guess that some of the information in this book can also be implemented in third party virtualization solutions -
But currently, VMware is VMware.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive up to date coverage of MS applications December 1, 2011

By B. P. ODwyer

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This was a nice technical coverage of the major MS applications, SQL, Exchange and SharePoint both older and current versions. The details and performance requirements are spelled out and working examples provided. if you are looking for a book to gather the information you need to start viirtualizing the teir one applications then you should get this one and read it. I used it to create two production SharePoint 2010 farms and help with AD controller issues.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Marginal Value October 16, 2010

By GMAdamo

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

If you don't know much about Vsphere you may find this book useful. A better title would be "Your first book for Virtualizing Windows OS." I did not find a lot of performance tuning information. The best source for that is still the VMWare web site. There are better, more comprehensive choices to learn about Vsphere in my opinion.