The answer is, it depends. I would certainly want ESX Enterprise features (mostly for HA). Mailbox roles of any kind - be careful on storage requirements. It could get tricky identifying bottlenecks if you are pushing your storage throughput limits, for example.
Certainly don't take snapshots of DB or Log disks :) --James On 8/22/08, TechInfo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any info on my original question?? :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Aug 22, 2008 4:00 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware > > 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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