I can't say much about Exchange on VMWare, but for what it's worth, I can
relate my disastrous experience in trying to run 07 on MS Virtual Server.
(lab situation)
Turns out you cannot install 64-bit Exchange 07 on a 64-bit MSVS! You can
only run 32-bit software on a 64-bit Virtual Machine. Makes perfect sense.
To the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, anyway.
As soon as I got a grip on myself, I saw that I had a gorgeous Virtual
Server all dressed with nowhere to go. It would be a shame to waste it
(and having taken much longer to build, upgrade, and patch than a real
server), so if I couldn't put the REAL Exchange on it, why not try the
32-bit evaluation Exchange 07? It would still be a good lab thingy.
It installed allright. Sort of. But it was unstable and buggy -- never
worked right. Now that DID make sense: a 32-bit impersonator running in a
64-bit Virtual Machine on 64-bit hardware just wasn't going to be very
happy. So I flattened the Virtual Server and turned to more sensible
pursuits.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miller, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:17 AM
Subject: Exchange and VMWare
Hello all.
I hope this topic has not been beat to death. We plan on upgrading to
Exchange 2007 early next year. One of the ideas from manegemnt is to run
exchange 2007 on VMWare and a SAN. My main areas of concern are support
(see the links below), and performance (I/O). We have 72 offies, 90+%
being 500 users or less. Anyone else running Exchange 2007 on
VMWare/SAN. Any issues with support from MS and/or I/O? Any thoughts and
suggestions would be much appreciated...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320220/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615/
TIA
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