Some time ago I asked the community What other applications do we need proven practices for? I picked the top ten and created a new poll online to see which ones this community wants to focus on.
It's clear that Microsoft apps come the top of the list. The good news is that I know that all of them have been virtualized, in production, by existing customers, today. Now we need to find out how they did it!
Inside VMware we can find out the way(s) to do it - but I think the best answers come from the members of this community. So, have a look at the poll and see if you've virtualized any of these - and are you willing to write up what you did?
In most cases, virtualizing an application is straight forward... create VM, install OS, install app etc. but you might wish to include the design considerations, perhaps the infrastructure topology - be as creative as you like. You can upload images, even link to YouTube content -)
I'm going to ask Chris Skinner if he might kick things off with Active Directory because I can't believe people are STILL not virtualizing it, and I did this with customers over four years ago...but Chris is the master!
Cheers
Steve
