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Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
About the Technical Reviewers
Acknowledgements
Reader Services
1 Introduction to Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
What Are Business Critical Applications?
Why Virtualize Business Critical Applications?
Benefits
Risks, Challenges, and Common Objections of Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
Performance
Supportability
Management
Reliability
Security Risks
Complacency
Summary
2 Strategies for Success
Understanding People, Process, and Technology
People
Process
Technology
Capacity Planning Assessments
VMware Capacity Planner
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
Strategies for Success
Capacity Planning
Develop a Virtualization-First Policy
Understand Licensing Requirements
Application Silos
Virtualizing “Like for Like”
Timing Is Key
Enterprise Management and Monitoring
vCenter Operations Management Suite
Summary
3 Overview of VMware vSphere
Why vSphere for Business Critical Applications
Proven Performance
Efficiency and Scalability
Availability
vSphere Considerations for Business Critical Applications
Processor Virtualization
Memory
Storage
Networking
Summary
4 Virtualizing Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers
Introduction to Active Directory
What’s New in Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain Services
Benefits of Virtualizing Domain Controllers
Why Virtualize Domain Controllers?
Virtualizing Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers
Virtualized Domain Controller Sizing
Time Synchronization
Verifying Functionality
vSphere Configuration
Virtualizing All Domain Controllers
Windows Server 2012 Virtualization-Aware Safeguards
A Brief History of Virtualized Domain Controller Risks
VM-GenerationID
Domain Controller Cloning
Virtualized Domain Controller Backup
Virtualized Domain Controller Deployment
Prepare the Virtual Machine
Install AD DS
Promote to a Domain Controller
Summary
5 Virtualizing Windows Failover Clusters
Background
Defining High-Availability Requirements
What Does High Availability Mean to You?
Determining Availability Requirements
High-Availability Capabilities
VMware vSphere High Availability
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduling
vSphere Fault Tolerance
Going All-In with vSphere High Availability
Windows Failover Clustering on vSphere
Cluster Configuration Overview
Requirements for Windows Failover Clustering
Deploying a Windows Failover Cluster on a vSphere Cluster
Setting Up a Windows Failover Cluster on vSphere
Building the Cluster Nodes
Configuring the Virtual Machines
Summary
6 Virtualizing Exchange Server 2013
What’s New in Exchange 2013
Consolidated Server Roles
Additional Features of Exchange 2013
Support for Virtualizing Exchange 2013
Understanding Support Requirements
Exchange 2013 Sizing on vSphere
Exchange Design Elements
Virtual Machine Design
Application of the Compute Requirements to the Virtual Platform
Virtualizing Database Availability Groups
The Evolution of Exchange Clustering
Exchange DAG Versus Traditional Clustering on vSphere
Considerations for Virtualizing Exchange DAG
Backup and Recovery of Virtualized Exchange Servers
Exchange 2013 Deployment
Configure vSphere Network
Build the Virtual Machines
Create DRS Groups and Rules
Configure DAG Heartbeat Threshold
Summary
7 Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012
What’s New in SQL Server 2012?
Availability
Editions
Scalability
Performance
Why Virtualize SQL Server 2012?
Consolidation
High Availability with Less Complexity
Scalability on Demand
Faster Provisioning
Preparing for Virtualizing SQL Server 2012
SQL Server Capacity Planning
SQL Licensing
SQL Upgrade Advisor
Virtualize Microsoft SQL Server 2012
High Availability
Allocating CPU to SQL Server Workloads
Allocating Memory to SQL Server Workloads
Allocating Storage to SQL Server Workloads
Allocating Network to SQL Server Workloads
Balancing SQL Server Workloads
SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer
Enforcing SQL Server Licensing with vSphere DRS Rules
Performance Testing
Backing Up SQL Server Virtual Machines
Adjusting Cluster Heartbeat Settings
SQL as a Service
Deploying SQL Server 2012
Deploy Virtual Machines
Configure Failover Clustering
Install SQL Server 2012
Create AlwaysOn Availability Group
AlwaysOn Availability Group Dashboard
Monitoring SQL Server Virtual Machines
Summary
8 Virtualizing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
What’s New in SharePoint 2013
Deployment Flexibility
Distributed Cache
Disk I/O Improvements
SharePoint Database Improvements
Improved Reliability
Why Virtualize SharePoint 2013
Increased Efficiency
Rapid Provisioning
Fast and Dynamic Scaling
Increased Availability
Co-Location of Test and Development Environments
Simplified Disaster Recovery
Preparing for Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2013
Server Roles
High Availability for SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server Load Testing
Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2013
Allocating CPU to SharePoint Server Workloads
Allocating Memory to SharePoint Server Workloads
Allocating Storage to SharePoint Server Workloads
Allocating Network to SharePoint Server Workloads
Ongoing Performance Monitoring
Deploying SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint Server Prerequisites
Installing SharePoint Server 2013
Configuring SharePoint Server 2013
Protecting SharePoint Server Databases with AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Summary
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