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Server Applications

More and more companies are using virtualization to deploy server applications like Microsoft® SQL Server®, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server as well as packaged and custom Line of Business (LOB) applications. These customers can recognize significant benefits including increased resource utilization, enhanced business continuity, and a more agile and efficient management solution. By choosing Microsoft Virtualization (Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V + System Center), customers benefit from a lower cost solution (both up front and ongoing) that is already part of Windows Server and an integrated end to end management solution for both physical and virtual environments.

Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for Microsoft Server Applications

  • Microsoft Server Applications Built for Windows®: The built-in architecture of Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ means there is no need for an additional hypervisor purchase and you also benefit from one-stop support. Features from server applications and Windows server together help provide increased deployment options. Additionally, our broad network of experienced Microsoft partners can provide support by rapidly responding to your diverse business needs.

  • Complete Management Solution: Microsoft Virtualization offers you a complete end-to-end management solution. It enables you to optimize your assets, and centrally monitor and manage all of your physical and virtual resources across multiple hypervisors from the hardware to the application level. With Microsoft® System Center, you will have the ability to patch and deploy your applications with System Center Configuration Manager and access best practices and deep knowledge through System Center Operations Manager management packs. Additionally, System Center delivers a backup and recovery solution with System Center Data Protection Manager and dynamic management of virtualized infrastructure through System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) packs.

  • Low Cost Complete Solution: Because a comparable virtualization solution can cost up to six times more than Microsoft Virtualization*, organizations worldwide are using Microsoft Virtualization to help reduce costs and deliver greater value. You can simplify your IT infrastructure and processes, resulting in lower ongoing costs by saving on space, power, and resources. Microsoft also offers virtualization-friendly licensing specifically designed for your virtualization needs, allowing you to move virtualized applications to a different server when you require without licensing restrictions.

*Based on a comparison of Microsoft® System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter with VMware’s vSphere Enterprise Plus with VMware vCenter Server. Assumes a five host configuration, 2 processors on each host, 2 years support costs for both products, and no operating system costs included. The Microsoft solution can use either the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hypervisor or an existing Windows Server 2008 R2 hypervisor. Based on Microsoft estimated retail prices and published VMware prices available at https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore as of 08/04/2009 for purchases in the United States. Actual reseller prices may vary.

Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission-critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.

Microsoft Virtualization (Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V + System Center) provides IT professionals with new options to provide deployment flexibility for SQL Server and realize benefits in terms of reduced hardware and energy costs. In addition, with System Center server management suites (such as SMSE or SMSD) you get an end to end management solution that includes tools such as System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 that provides SQL Server-specific monitoring through SQL Server management pack and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 that makes it easy for administrators to manage multiple virtual hosts, quickly provision database servers, migrate physical servers to virtual ones, and perform other key management processes. System Center makes it possible to manage the deployment of SQL Server in a mixed physical and virtual environment giving you the ultimate deployment flexibility.

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Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for Office SharePoint Server

Customers use SharePoint products and technologies to significantly enhance productivity, allowing knowledge workers to be more efficient in creating and organizing content. Your IT department can build and manage scalable SharePoint farms to provide for the infrastructure to support collaboration and content management. Your SharePoint architect can create a deployment model that is reliable and scalable, without introducing unnecessary costs or over-architecting the environment.

Microsoft Virtualization (Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V + System Center) provides SharePoint architects with a flexible toolset that can be used to reduce hardware and energy costs, increase the performance of SharePoint farms, and provide a level of design flexibility that is not possible with traditional physical deployment approaches. In addition, with System Center server management suites (such as SMSE or SMSD) you get an end to end management solution that includes tools such as System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 that provides SharePoint-specific monitoring through SharePoint management pack and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2which makes it easy for SharePoint administrators to manage multiple virtual hosts, quickly provision SharePoint servers and farms, migrate physical servers to virtual ones, and perform other key management processes. System Center makes it possible to manage the deployment of SharePoint roles in a mixed physical and virtual environment giving you the ultimate deployment flexibility.

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Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for Exchange Server

For most businesses today, email is the mission-critical communications tool that allows their people to produce the best results. Employees look for rich, efficient access—to email, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more—no matter where they are or what type of device they are using. For IT professionals, delivering a messaging system that addresses these needs must be balanced against other requirements such as security and cost. Microsoft Exchange Server has been designed specifically to meet these challenges and address the needs of the different groups who have a stake in the messaging system.

Microsoft Virtualization (Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V + System Center) provides IT professionals with new options to provide deployment flexibility for Exchange Server and realize benefits such as reduced hardware and energy costs. In addition, with System Center server management suites (such as SMSE or SMSD) you get an end to end management solution that includes tools such as System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 that provides Exchange-specific monitoring through Exchange management pack and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.that makes it easy for administrators to manage multiple virtual hosts, quickly provision Exchange Server roles, migrate physical servers to virtual ones, and perform other key management processes. System Center makes it possible to manage the deployment of Exchange roles in a mixed physical and virtual environment giving you the ultimate deployment flexibility.

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SAP

Businesses are under pressure to ease management and reduce costs while retaining and enhancing competitive advantages, such as flexibility, reliability, scalability, and security. Microsoft provides a complete suite of technologies to help enable an interoperable, end-to-end, virtualized infrastructure that can help IT departments maximize ROI and save costs across the enterprise. By consolidating application services on less hardware and simultaneously increasing flexibility and availability, you can lower the TCO of SAP infrastructures.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides a low-cost, scalable and highly available platform for server consolidation of SAP solutions. Whether the solution comprises components of a SAP ERP system or middleware components such as SAP BW, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Process Infrastructure, SAP Master Data Management or SAP Mobile Infrastructure, the resource utilization of the SAP infrastructure physical servers can be optimized by moving the components into virtual environments. Microsoft solutions also improve availability, flexibility and manageability of SAP applications in production, as well as test and development environments, with technologies such as clustering, Quick Migration and the end-to-end management capabilities of Microsoft System Center products.

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