They can tell. For example if you run EXBPA, it will alert on VMware.
From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Exchange (Sunbelt) Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Update: Exchange on VM Or you could neglect to tell them...:) From: Thomas Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Update: Exchange on VM Then you could look at at a tool called Powerconvert from platespin http://www.platespin.com/products/powerconvert/ you can spend 200$ for a virtual to physical conversion. Let say you need PSS, with a spare server you could migrate the VM to physical for troubleshooting. VMware also has a support page for V2P conversion http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/ 2008/5/16 John Hornbuckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Yeah, I interpret it that way. Especially since Microsoft themselves makes Exchange available on a VHD for download into a test/lab environment. But I've got to run a config that's supported, just in case I ever have a problem that requires MS's help. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Update: Exchange on VM I'm going to infer that means "support you can get from a PSS call" versus "it'll actually run on it". 8^) -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Update: Exchange on VM Well, here's a kink in my plans... Microsoft tells me that they don't support running Exchange 2007 on a virtual server now, and will only support it for certain roles in the future. They wrote: "Right now we don't support virtualization of Exchange 2007. After Hyper-V ships we will have different messaging. I'm sure it will be around virtualization with Hyper-V. That said only some roles will have support. I believe we are leaning toward CAS, HUB, and Edge Transport that will be supported and Mailbox and UM Server Roles will not be supported for virtualization. Again this isn't official but expected." My problem is that all of my roles are handled by a single server. I'm not looking to change that. John On 5/9/08 10:41 AM, "John Hornbuckle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have pretty much no experience running VMs on servers, other than a > 1-day VMWare training session I attended this past winter. As I migrate > us to Windows Server 2008 this summer, I'll be playing more with > virtualization. > > I'm hoping to consolidate a few servers into one bigger server, and am > looking at running Exchange 2007 on a virtual Server 2008 machine. Is > anyone doing this successfully? Any caveats? > > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ----- Salvador Manzo [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter University of Southern California 818-612-5112 --- "Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." -- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801) ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
