Best Practices: Server Virtualization in Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Microsoft has made significant investments in providing virtualization support for Lync Server across a fully distributed topology. Lync Server can be virtualized by using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, or other virtualization solutions that have been tested by Microsoft.

This document outlines a series of best practice recommendations for:

· Deploying a virtualized Lync Server topology

· Typical VM host configurations

· VM guest configuration best practices based on the workload

· Scale comparison of virtualized and physical Lync Server roles

· Measuring Performance

Thanks for reading,

Mitch

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