I wouldn't consider it on anything other than VMWARE ESX with lots of procs so that you can dedicate at least 2 to a VM. GSX is great, but can't dedicate more than one proc per VM. Also, you have to keep in mind that your physical (or in VMWare's case Virtual) disk activity will most likely be tremendously greater outside the lab.
VMWare works fine if you can dedicate spindles to the Exchange, but again it is a lot of overhead to run in that environment. We do run our last Exchange 5.5 server with no stores in a VM on GSX as a site connector to the rest of our county organization and it works fine with no database activity. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephens, Tara Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Engineering argument Our engineering guys (who have no email experience at all) are trying to make the argument that we should move our Exchange environment to Vmware. I know that Vmware is good for test labs, but has anyone run it in production? Their website says that it works with Exchange, but they want to sell their product. Please let me know if you have any horror stories or fairy tales about that configuration. Thanks. Tara _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
