Yes Exchange is a resource hog. If I run Exchange (virtualized) on it own set of hardware? This should provide sufficient resources (assuming you have high quality hardware) and also give you the benefits of virtualization. Or consider running multiple Exchange servers on a 32-way machine. Each machine would have its own dedicated Disk controllers (either SCSI or Fibre) Memory and CPU. If you need more/cpu simply reconfigure the virtual machine. Granted this would be more for large enterprises rather than SMBs but I would not simply dismiss the idea.
Dennis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 5:29 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware I could not have worded that better. Sincerely, Jose Medeiros ADP | National Account Services ProBusiness Division | Information Services 925.737.7967 | 408-449-6621 CELL -------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 6:53 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware I couldn't agree more with Tony -- Exchange is a resource hog and should not be done on VMWare except for testing purposes. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.... Chuck Gafford Systems Architect Unisys Mobile: (405) 819-6766 -----Original Message----- From: Medeiros, Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: # Jose Medeiros-IBM (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:39:35 -0700 Subject: [ActiveDir] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware Hi Tony, I have to respond to this. Many IT managers think you can just virtualize any application because of all the marketing hype. Be very careful, I/O is critical to Exchange and any other database application which may make running it on VMWARE or VIRTUAL SERVER unpractical not to mention Exchange is also very resource intensive and will take whatever it can. Now I am sure if you have a very small environment that it may make sense, but with Microsoft Small Business server why would you want to? Any body else car e to throw in there two cents? Sincerely, Jose Medeiros ADP | National Account Services ProBusiness Division | Information Services 925.737.7967 | 408-449-6621 CELL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware Microsoft has introduced support for Exchange 2003 SP2 and later on Virtual Server 2005 R2. This article has just been released. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320220 I guess this means we can now run a DC and Exchange on the same physical hardware without any of the previous limitations. Tony List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
