If you have a Premier agreement, then that should change. VMWare is now supported as a platform for Windows Server (it wasn't as of last week). I would expect those trends to start to reverse somewhat, or Microsoft will start to get itself into trouble...
--James On 8/22/08, Damian Myles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. 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