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Hier die Inhaltsangabe:

• Virtualized Exchange Server Best Practices
• Server Deployment Best Practices
• Capacity, Sizing, and Performance of Exchange Server on Hyper-V Best Practices
• Best Practices for Maintaining High Availability of Exchange Server 2010 on Hyper-V
• Running Exchange Alongside Other Workloads in a Virtual Environment
• Audience
• Background Information About Hyper-V
• Server Core Installation Option
• Virtualized Exchange Server Best Practices
• Scale Up or Scale Out?
• Hyper-V Root Sizing
• Hyper V Guest Configuration
• Guest Memory
• Guest Storage
• Determining Exchange Server Role Virtual Machine Locations
• Deployment Recommendations
• Server Deployment Best Practices
• Mailbox Server Deployment
• Edge Transport or Hub Transport Server Deployment
• Client Access Server Deployment
• Unified Messaging Server Deployment
• Client Access Server/Hub Transport Multi-role Deployment
• Exchange Hosting Mode
• Storage Options When Using Hyper-V
• Internal or External Storage
• Direct-Attached Storage
• iSCSI
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet
• For More Information
• Virtualization Scenarios That Are Not Supported
• Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer
• Improvements with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
• Dynamic Virtual Machine Storage
• Enhanced Processor Support
• Enhanced Networking Support
• Live Migration
• Dynamic Memory
• Microsoft RemoteFX
• Hyper V Failover Clustering
• Capacity, Sizing, and Performance of Exchange on Hyper-V Best Practices
• Hardware Considerations
• Organization Requirements
• Mailbox Storage Requirements
• Mailbox Size Requirements
• Mailbox Profile Requirements
• Deleted Item Retention
• Calendar Version Logging
• Mailbox Server Capacity Planning
• Calculate Mailbox Size on Disk
• Calculate Database Storage Capacity Requirements
• Calculate Transaction Log Storage Capacity Requirements
• Review Total Storage Capacity Requirements
• Estimate Mailbox CPU Requirements
• Hub Transport Server Capacity Planning
• Hub Transport Disk Requirements
• Hub Transport Processor Cores
• Client Access Server Capacity Planning
• Client Access Server Processor Cores
• Client Access and Hub Transport Server Combined Roles Capacity Planning
• Unified Messaging Server Capacity Planning
• Number of Concurrent Calls
• Best Practices for Maintaining High Availability of Exchange Server 2010 on Hyper-V
• Determine High Availability Strategy
• Mailbox Servers
• Hyper V Failover Clustering
• Determine Placement of Exchange Server Roles
• Hub Transport Servers
• Determining How Many Available Megacycles a Server Can Support
• Running Exchange Alongside Other Workloads in a Virtual Environment
• Virtualizing Domain Controllers
• Domain Controller Disk Space Requirements
• Domain Controller Memory Requirements

Hier auch noch ein Link zu einem Blog eines Exchange Server 2010 Spezialisten, der zu diesem Thema auch auf der TechEd 2011 in Atlanta spricht.