Exchange 2007 is more friendly for virtualization since in runs primarily in memory where Exchange 2003 did more writing to disk. I/O issues have been reported by some where others it has not been a problem. Part of that mostly likely is due to your network and SAN setup. Are you going to be clustering Exchange in your VMware environment?
Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team EITC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:15:51 -0400 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: VMWare and Exchange Has anyone virtualized their whole Exchange environment? Any issues? Has anyone had issue particularly with a backend box being virtualized? What about if it is clustered with MS Clustering services. Rick Fogarty Team EITC, Senior Systems Engineer Planning & Systems Engineering Coordinator US Army Special Operations Command (910) 396-0501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~