Highlights
- Reduce operating costs - Improve the efficiency and flexibility of your data center with Windows® Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V and IBM System x® and BladeCenter® servers
- Drive up server utilization - Benefit from IBM virtualization solutions that are designed for energy efficiency, virtualization, reliability and manageability
- Quick to configure and deliver – Purchase Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 R2 editions when configuring your System x and BladeCenter servers –pre-tuned with certified and tested drivers and server operating system images
Resources
High availability reference architectures
- Deploying IBM System x3100 M4 servers for SMB high-availability virtualization (692KB)
- Deploying IBM System x3250 M4 servers for low-cost, high-availability virtualization (692KB)
- IBM System x3690 X5 servers and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (689KB)
- IBM System x3850 X5 servers and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (297KB)
- IBM BladeCenter HX5 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (666KB)
General server virtualization with Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter (1.24MB)
- Deploying IBM System x3850 X5 servers, IBM Storwize V7000 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
- High availability virtualization on the IBM System x3850 X5
- High density virtualization using the IBM System x3850 X5
- Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization on IBM System x3850 X5 (692KB)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization on IBM System x3550 M3 (643KB)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization on IBM System x3650 M3 (647KB)
- Microsoft Hyper-V: Live Migration of VMs on IBM System x and IBM Storage (1.16MB)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization on IBM BladeCenter HX5 blade servers (650KB)
Cloud computing
Learn how IBM System x and Microsoft Hyper-V provide a robust private cloud architecture for any size organization.
- Building a Microsoft Hyper-V cloud with IBM solutions (PDF, 2.44MB)
- IBM System x Private Cloud Offering (PDF, 827KB)
Virtual desktop infrastructure
- Powering the remote desktop with Microsoft RemoteFX: solution brief (629KB)
- Remote desktop reference architecture—Microsoft RemoteFX on IBM System x iDataPlex (1.24MB)
Database virtualization
- Consolidation of Microsoft SQL Server Instances on the IBM System x3850 X5 with Microsoft Hyper-V
- Consolidating Large Microsoft SQL Server Databases on the IBM System x3850 X5 with Microsoft Hyper-V
Application virtualization
- Reference Configuration for Microsoft Dynamics 2011 Using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering with Hyper-V on IBM System x3650 M3 and Storwize V7000
- Virtualizing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (649KB)
- Virtualizing Microsoft Dynamics CRM using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V on IBM System x3650 M3 (149KB)
Managing virtualization environments with System Center:
- New Features for IBM SCCM plug-ins: Tools to Deploy and Manage IBM System x and Blade servers in SCCM (1.24MB)
- Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Workgroup Edition on IBM System x solution brief (206KB)
- Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Workgroup Edition on IBM System x reference architecture (464KB)
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