Not sure thats the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...... There are some specific exceptions for Exchange in Virtual. 1) Mixing Database Availability Groups and VMWare availability tools (e.g. HA) is not supported. I guess the issue is that the database may fail over while the machine is being migrated. See the blog some one else has just posted. This makes designing a supported solution "interesting" because it would be nice to have your "Live/production" database server in a VMWare cluster for hardware resilience and have a second standby server on another site for disaster recovery. This is unsupported. To be supported you must put TWO virtual servers in the local VMWare farm and exclude them from HA and have a third at your disaster recovery site. 2) The Unified Messaging role is not supported in virtual. Dave Wade Business Services I.C.T. 0161 474 5456
________________________________ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 November 2010 16:45 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS Support on VMware? http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=897615 On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Phil Hershey <phers...@agia.com> wrote: Under what conditions, if any, will MS support Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere? Our current Exchange 2003 is running on an IBM blade/NetApp iSCSI SAN on ESX 3.0.2, and performance sucks. Unfortunately the 'let's virtualize it' flu is running rampant here, although my vote is to take the Exchange system physical (~450 users and 500GB in EDB, STM, LOG files). Thanks. Philip --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist ********************************************************************** Cut Carbon, Save Money, Save the Environment. Take the climate challenge and reduce your carbon footprint at www.stockport.gov.uk/carboff This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. As a public body, the Council may be required to disclose this email, or any response to it, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless the information in it is covered by one of the exemptions in the Act. If you receive this email in error please notify Stockport ICT, Business Services via email.qu...@stockport.gov.uk and then permanently remove it from your system. Thank you. http://www.stockport.gov.uk ********************************************************************** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist