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If you’re one of those guys that are thinking about SharePoint 2010 virtualization, a number of useful docs are available to help you with the process.

SharePoint 2010 – Virtualization Planning
This section contains articles that are designed to help you plan and implement a server virtualization solution for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 server farms. In this section:

• Virtualization support and licensing (SharePoint Server 2010)
• Hyper-V virtualization requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)
• Plan virtual architectures (SharePoint Server 2010)
• Plan for virtualization (SharePoint Server 2010)
• Capacity management and high availability in a virtual environment (SharePoint Server 2010)

Additionally a webcast delivered by the TechNet team, will come soon on the same topics:
TechNet Webcast: Deep Dive – Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for SharePoint 2010 (Level 300)
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Hyper-V.
Audience(s):  IT Generalist.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:00 PM GMT
Event Overview: Virtualising business-critical applications can deliver significant customer benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. In this webcast, we discuss virtualising Microsoft SharePoint 2010 using Microsoft solutions. We present the benefits of Microsoft virtualization technologies over key competitors such as VMware, and we provide guidance for virtualising SharePoint 2010 for production and test/development scenarios, focusing on scale, load balancing, dynamic provisioning, and high availability. Other topics we cover include Microsoft virtualization technical details with best practices and customer evidence and results from lab deployment tests.
Presenters: Arno Mihm, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Bill Baer, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
If you’re interested, and you’re free at that time, you can register here.