Sr. Systems Engineer 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
Sr. Systems Engineer at Microsoft based in Redmond. I'm the release, implementation and Operations Engineer for Microsoft Buisness Online Services under DMS Software Delivery 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&TT WorldNet Service, 24 Hrs Fitness, State of California, Northrope Grumman, NOS Communications, GE Capital, KLA Tencor, Wells Fargo Mortagage, Dudeworks, TeleTech, TekSystems, etc...