Server virtualization

[hdoan53]

Our company has about 25 physical servers running Windows 2003 and 2008 OS.  We also have Exchange 2007 and 2010, SQL 2005 and 2008,  Sharepoint 2007 and 2010, and Windows 2003 and 2008 R2 domain controllers.

I am looking for documents, guides, best practices for migrating physical servers to VMs.  Please let me know if these documents available on VMware website.

Thanks,

H Doan

[peetz]

Hi,

a good starting point to find resources about the virtualization of most of your applications is here:

http://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps

- Andreas

[skhoury]

You've quite a nice project on your hands.  You'll want to start reading up on VMware vSphere.  Here are some things to get you on the right path:

Good book to get you started:

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-VMware-vSphere-Scott-Lowe/dp/0470890800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=13341...

Introduction courses:

http://labs.vmware.com/academic/introduction-to-virtualization

Best Practices:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200509...

and

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&e...

Installation and Setup:

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-install...

Good luck and if you have other questions, be sure to ping back the community.

[abirhasan]

Here is a guide line for server virtualization. Have a look..

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/sql_server_virt_bp.pdf

abirhasan