Engineer, Lab Manger & Production Manager at Microsoft based in Redmond. Technical resource in release management for Microsoft Buisness Online Services. Currently working on all feature sets of Configuration Manager 2007 with focus on Network Access Protection, Virtualization and Internet Based Client Management. Previously worked for Warner Bros, NBC Studios, AT&T, 24 Hrs Fitness, State of California, Northrope Grumman, NOS Communications, GE Capital, KLA Tencor, Wells Fargo Mortagage, Dudeworks, TeleTech, TekSystems, etc...
Friday, May 23, 2008 | 5 Comments | 
For a prospect customer there's nothing better than a real-world implementation to realize the potential or a certain technology. And this is very true in an almost unexplored technology like virtualization.
Microsoft, which eats its own dog food since the Virtual Server 2005 era, just announced the complete migration of both MSDN and TechNet, two of the most popular web sites in the world, on virtual machines.
Microsoft kept the back-end database on physical boxes, but moved 100% of its IIS7 frond-ends on Hyper-V RC0 VMs with 4 virtual CPUs and 10GB RAM.
The virtualization hosts (no mention of the brand obviously) are powered by 2 Intel quad-core CPUs and 32GB RAM (2GB are reserved for the Windows Server 2008 parent partition).
Follow the link below to learn more.
http://www.virtualization.info/2008/05/microsoft-migrates-msdn-and-technet-on.html
About Richard Dixon
I’ve worked in the technology field since 1990 in Systems Management, integration and automation thru the use of Microsoft technologies such as System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Operations Manager, and Service Manager. SQL Server 2008 & Reporting Services, Visual Studio, SharePoint with InfoPath Integration, SME on Microsoft's Hyper V Virtualization technology, Failover Clustering & Network Load Balancer Services. Recently managed a 17 Hyper V node environment, over a 130 virtual machines that span environments such as Lab, Preproduction & Production supporting several System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Infrastructures customized to support all site roles for the environment including 6 MPs, 6 SUPs & 8 DPs that are all completely virtualized supporting up to 200,000 desktops across all supported environments at Microsoft, other skills includes SCCM Network Access Protection and Forefront Identity Management with a strong unique ability to learn new technologies surprisingly fast.
Previously worked for Warner Bros, NBC Studios, AT&T WorldNet Service, 24 Hrs Fitness, State of California, Northrop Grumman, NOS Communications, GE Capital, KLA Tencor, Wells Fargo Mortgage, Dudeworks, TeleTech, TekSystems.