Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-11 Thread John Bowles
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

RE: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-11 Thread Stefan Jafs
ginal 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 w

RE: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
ailability 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 2

RE: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-11 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and VMWare 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 wor

RE: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-11 Thread Martin Blackstone
-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and VMWare Btw All VMware HA gives you is single point of failure protection at the ESX host level. If the host where the exchange VM lives crashes all the guests living on that host get booted and powered on in another host in the cluster

Re: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Fontana
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 t

Re: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-12 Thread James Rankin
We've got a pure Exchange 2007 environment running on VMWare, and it functions just fine for us. The migration from our physical system was flawless - however we built an entirely new virtualised AD structure at the same time, which may or may not have helped with the smooth migration process. If

RE: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
: 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 vi

Re: Exchange 2007 and VMWare

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Fontana
na...@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 p