HI Alex. Long time no hear from you!
IOPS delivered is always a concern. Depending on the I/O delivery mechanism, virtualization may impact it. Or it may not. J From: Alex Fontana [mailto:afontana...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2007 and VMWare Interesting statement... Depending on the I/O availability from the disk solution would be a matter of concern in a virtual and physical deployment, not just in the virtual. In all tests that I've performed I/O has not been a concern for going physical over virtual. IMO the only concern for virtualizing (on VMware at least) would be for deployments where it is desired to exceed the 4 CPU limitation of the virtual machine or Windows 2008 fail-over clusters are desired. -alex ps/ maybe i'm bias...;-) On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> wrote: You can either use VMware's HA or Exchange's HA - but not both. Note that that is the Microsoft support position and not VMware's. Exchange 2007 works just fine in a virtualized environment. I've got a number of deployments out there. Depending on I/O requirements and I/O availability from your disk solution, you might consider putting the mailbox role on physical hardware and everything else on virtual. -----Original Message----- From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 and VMWare All- I've been tasked to research E2K7 and VMWare. I know VMWare say's they support this type of installation.. but what I'm looking for is people that actually have this type of setup in their environment or have set this up in someone's environment. Has anyone had success with this design scenario? Were there any gotcha's? How does well does it work with HA? TIA, _____________ John Bowles ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
