Virtualize Tier 1 Applications Faster

Symantec now offers reference architectures for business critical virtualization to facilitate faster deployments of Microsoft® applications on VMware® virtualization server platforms, enhanced by Symantec software. These specialized solution blueprints demonstrate how organizations can meet the demands for application performance, availability, security, and cost with server virtualization solutions. The development and validation of these solutions follows industry-standard enterprise architecture development methods, as defined by The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), to accelerate adoption into your production environment. Documented best practices help increase the business value and return on investment from Symantec virtualization server software to effectively accelerate next phase deployments of virtualization initiatives. Architectures within this series include Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and Sharepoint.

Accelerating Virtualization of Tier 1 Applications

This white paper introduces the business goals and objectives of the Symantec reference architectures and covers key guiding principles and assumptions as well as an overview of architectural components.