Foreword xiii Chapter 1 Introduction to Virtualizing Business Critical Applications 1 What Are Business Critical Applications? 2 Why Virtualize Business Critical Applications? 3 Benefits 3 Risks, Challenges, and Common Objections of Virtualizing Business Critical Applications 11 Performance 11 Supportability 14 Management 15 Reliability 16 Security Risks 17 Complacency 19 Chapter 2 Strategies for Success 23 Understanding People, Process, and Technology 24 People 24 Process 25 Technology 27 Capacity Planning Assessments 30 VMware Capacity Planner 30 Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 44 Strategies for Success 60 Capacity Planning 60 Develop a Virtualization-First Policy 61 Understand Licensing Requirements 61 Application Silos 62 Virtualizing "Like for Like" 64 Timing Is Key 65 Enterprise Management and Monitoring 66 vCenter Operations Management Suite 66 Chapter 3 Overview of VMware vSphere 73 Why vSphere for Business Critical Applications 74 Proven Performance 74 Efficiency and Scalability 75 Availability 76 vSphere Considerations for Business Critical Applications 77 Processor Virtualization 78 Memory 84 Storage 87 Networking 93 Chapter 4 Virtualizing Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers 99 Introduction to Active Directory 100 What''s New in Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain Services 101 Benefits of Virtualizing Domain Controllers 104 Why Virtualize Domain Controllers? 104 Virtualizing Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers 108 Virtualized Domain Controller Sizing 108 Time Synchronization 116 Verifying Functionality 124 vSphere Configuration 128 Virtualizing All Domain Controllers 131 Windows Server 2012 Virtualization-Aware Safeguards 132 A Brief History of Virtualized Domain Controller Risks 132 VM-GenerationID 134 Domain Controller Cloning 137 Virtualized Domain Controller Backup 143 Virtualized Domain Controller Deployment 144 Prepare the Virtual Machine 144 Install AD DS 146 Promote to a Domain Controller 148 Chapter 5 Virtualizing Windows Failover Clusters 155 Background 155 Defining High-Availability Requirements 157 What Does High Availability Mean to You? 157 Determining Availability Requirements 159 High-Availability Capabilities 161 VMware vSphere High Availability 162 vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduling 163 vSphere Fault Tolerance 164 Going All-In with vSphere High Availability 165 Windows Failover Clustering on vSphere 167 Cluster Configuration Overview 167 Requirements for Windows Failover Clustering 170 Deploying a Windows Failover Cluster on a vSphere Cluster 172 Setting Up a Windows Failover Cluster on vSphere 172 Building the Cluster Nodes 172 Configuring the Virtual Machines 174 Chapter 6 Virtualizing Exchange Server 2013 193 What''s New in Exchange 2013 194 Consolidated Server Roles 194 Additional Features of Exchange 2013 200 Support for Virtualizing Exchange 2013 205 Understanding Support Requirements 206 Exchange 2013 Sizing on vSphere 208 Exchange Design Elements 209 Virtual Machine Design 211 Application of the Compute Requirements to the Virtual Platform 219 Virtualizing Database Availability Groups 222 The Evolution of Exchange Clustering 222 Exchange DAG Versus Traditional Clustering on vSphere 222 Considerations for Virtualizing Exchange DAG 223 Backup and Recovery of Virtualized Exchange Servers 232 Exchange 2013 Deployment 234 Configure vSphere Network 235 Build the Virtual Machines 248 Create DRS Groups and Rules 260 Configure DAG Heartbeat Threshold 267 Chapter 7 Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 273 What''s New in SQL Server 2012? 274 Availability 274 Editions 275 Scalability 276 Performance 277 Why Virtualize SQL Server 2012? 278 Consolidation 279 High Availability with Less Complexity 281 Scalability on Demand 282 Faster Provisioning 282 Preparing for Virtualizing SQL Server 2012 283 SQL Server Capacity Planning 283 SQL Licensing 290 SQL Upgrade Advisor 298 Virtualize Microsoft SQL Server 2012 301 High Availability 302 Allocating CPU to SQL Server Workloads 309 Allocating Memory to SQL Server Workloads 311 Allocating Storage to SQL Server Workloads 317 Allocating Network to SQL Server Workloads 322 Balancing SQL Server Workloads 323 SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer 324 Enforcing SQL Server Licensing with vSphere DRS Rules 325 Performance Testing 328 Backing Up SQL Server Virtual Machines 329 Adjusting Cluster Heartbeat Settings 330 SQL as a Service 332 Deploying SQL Server 2012 337 Deploy Virtual Machines 338 Configure Failover Clustering 340 Install SQL Server 2012 342 Create AlwaysOn Availability Group 344 AlwaysOn Availability Group Dashboard 349 Monitoring SQL Server Virtual Machines 351 Chapter 8 Virtualizing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 355 What''s New in SharePoint 2013 356 Deployment Flexibility 357 Distributed Cache 357 Disk I/O Improvements 358 SharePoint Database Improvements 359 Improved Reliability 359 Why Virtualize SharePoint 2013 360 Increased Efficiency 360 Rapid Provisioning 361 Fast and Dynamic Scaling 361 Increased Availability 362 Co-Location of Test and Development Environments 363 Simplified Disaster Recovery 364 Preparing for Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2013 365 Server Roles 366 High Availability for SharePoint Server 370 SharePoint Server Load Testing 372 Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2013 375 Allocating CPU to SharePoint Server Workloads 376 Allocating Memory to SharePoint Server Workloads 377 Allocating Storage to SharePoint Server Workloads 379 Allocating Network to SharePoint Server Workloads 380 Ongoing Performance Monitoring 381 Deploying SharePoint Server 2013 384 SharePoint Server Prerequisites 386 Installing SharePoint Server 2013 389 Configuring SharePoint Server 2013 390 Protecting SharePoint Server Databases with AlwaysOn Availability Groups 393 9780321912039 TOC 7/2/2013.