Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides

The Infrastructure Planning & Design guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. This series aims to clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, each addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario. These guides compliment product documentation by exposing and focusing on infrastructure design options
Released guides in series include:
Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization delivers applications that are never installed, yet securely follow users anywhere, on demand. It dramatically improves IT efficiencies, enables much greater business agility, and provides a superior end-user desktop experience. This guide enables you to plan the infrastructure required for meeting your application virtualization service goals.
Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology  guide helps you learn which Microsoft virtualization technology or technologies you should use for specific customer scenarios and then leverage the appropriate IPD guides.
Windows Server Virtualization (for Windows Server 2008 virtualization and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1) guide discusses how to plan your customers' server virtualization environment by determining requirements for the guest operating systems, applications, and services; capacity and performance requirements; and overall planning and design issues.