New book by VMware press – Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere. This book written by Matt Liebowitz and Alex Fontana guides you and gives you tips for virtualizing Microsoft business critical applications on VMware vSphere.
The book is available from Amazon as a Paperback ($40.74) or Kindle edition ($41.99) and covers advanced topics such as Microsoft AD, SQL, Sharepoint or Exchange in virtual environments under VMware vSphere. You'll get detailed info about the planning phase, the setup , but also what's happening on those critical apps during backups.
When looking at the content overview on Amazon, you quickly realize that this book has everything you need on planning, deployment, sizing, or backing up those Microsoft's products, but also looks into the different Microsoft technologies like setting up and building Microsoft failover clustering with cluster nodes and making sure the best requirements are met.
Also you're introduced in on benefits using HA or highly protecting your apps by using vSphere Fault tolerance.
Quote from Amazon:
Leading experts Matt Liebowitz and Alex Fontana present end-to-end coverage of virtualizing Windows Server 2012 AD domain controllers and failover clusters, Exchange Server 2013, SQL Server 2012, and SharePoint Server 2013. They offer indispensable advice on sizing, architecture, performance, availability, monitoring, and metrics.
Throughout, the authors share valuable tips, tricks, and insights from their own experiences. For each Microsoft application, they provide “proof of concept” sample configurations and clearly explain how new features impact virtualization. You’ll also find authoritative, up-to-date guidance on licensing and other issues related to ensuring full support from both Microsoft and VMware.
What's inside?
- Evaluating the benefits, risks, and challenges of virtualizing Microsoft business critical applications
- Identifying strategies for success associated with people, processes, and technology
- Reviewing VMware vSphere features most important to virtualizing business-critical applications
- Taking advantage of new virtualization-aware features built in to Windows Server 2012 domain controllers
- Designing and configuring vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) clusters to run Windows enterprise applications
- Reflecting Exchange Server 2013’s new architecture to maximize its performance in virtualized environments
- Leveraging new SQL Server 2012 features to simplify the delivery of high availability on virtual servers
- Reducing SQL Server 2012 licensing costs through virtualization
- Planning, designing, and deploying virtualized SharePoint Server 2013 environments
What I have seen on the Amazon overview page, where you can have a look what's inside and how the book is done. I saw many screenshots, good how-to and very well created content. Based on best practices for vSphere and Microsoft when being setup in virtual environments, the book is IMHO a must buy for enterprise admin, consultants or IT professionals.
The book Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere is available through Amazon.
Enjoy.
