Folks, VMWare.. oh.. what a life :-)
Just had a call with Microsoft support today concerning CRM 4.0... whilst you may be scratching your head thinking what bearing this may have on Exchange, the gravitas towards Hyper-V (at least in a support sense) is a tad annoying.. I am an advocate of virtualization particularly in certain spheres.. in Exchange terms that relates to the web tier (CAS / ActiveSync et al) so I was mildly put out with the response I had today ..... VMWare, I recognize, has been historically a "best effort" approach for support from Microsoft.... .. V2P has been a requisite in the past for Microsoft support for VMWare users to demonstrably prove that the problem didn't lie in the virtual layer. Today, we were asked today to move our test platforms to Hyper-V, to prove that the problems did not relate to VMWare... for the most part this is either a cop-out or at least a form of nepotism ... anyone else had similar experiences? Cheers, Mylo On 8/22/08, TechInfo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My bad, you are correct. > > > > > From: Miller Bonnie L. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Aug 22, 2008 1:15 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Exchange 07 on VMware > > > > Sounds like you have 2950s then, not 2850s? > > > > > From: TechInfo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:13 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Exchange 07 on VMware > > > > They are quad core E5430, 32GB RAM. They were purchased as a package with > the VMware software, should not be any issue with supporting 64bit. > > > > Larry > > > > > From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Aug 22, 2008 12:25 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Exchange 07 on VMware > > > > What kind of processor does the 2850 have? It needs to have virtualization > support for installing a 64bit guest on ESX. > > > > > From: TechInfo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:31 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Exchange 07 on VMware > > > > > Just thought I'd stir up the pot on the Exchange on VMware discussion > again. One of my projects for this year is to migrate to Exchange 07 from > 03. We currently have about 600 mailboxes residing on a single server, > single site. I purchased a Dell 2850 for this earlier this year. I also > installed VMWare ESX 3.5 earlier this year with a couple of Dell 2850's. > Now I'm thinking about using the server I have for Exchange, making it > another VMware server and then installing Exchange 07 on VMware. I'm just > looking for your thoughts (wisdom) from those that have been using it that > way on how it is working out. Also, that way would it make sense to break > out a separate vm for hub transport? We also have a BES server that I could > put on the same vnic to limit that traffic. We do have an enterprise > agreement with Microsoft as I know that is always brought up regarding > support. > > Larry Didtel > > Systems Administrator > > Stemilt Growers Inc > > This e-mail transmission and any accompanying documents contain information > from the company, Stemilt Growers, Inc., which is confidential or > privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual > or entity named in this transmission. If you are not the intended recipient, > be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents > of this transmission is prohibited. If you have received this transmission > in error, please notify us by telephone immediately at 509-663-1451. > > > > > > > > > > This e-mail transmission and any accompanying documents contain information > from the company, Stemilt Growers, Inc., which is confidential or > privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual > or entity named in this transmission. If you are not the intended recipient, > be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents > of this transmission is prohibited. If you have received this transmission > in error, please notify us by telephone immediately at 509-663-1451. > > > > > > > > > > This e-mail transmission and any accompanying documents contain information > from the company, Stemilt Growers, Inc., which is confidential or > privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual > or entity named in this transmission. If you are not the intended recipient, > be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents > of this transmission is prohibited. If you have received this transmission > in error, please notify us by telephone immediately at 509-663-1451. > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
