RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
hings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? That's what I don't understand tbh - why the server/exchange should know or care about any HA/vmotion stuff happening to the VM

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Joseph Heaton
Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: 07 September 2010 18:38 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? +1 Just went down this road with a large design I had to do with a customer. What I did is have two MBX servers, that will be placed on separ

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? Not hot spare as in automatic failover or anything, that's overkill for us, but the plan (not just Exchange but in

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Simon Butler
ailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: 07 September 2010 18:37 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? Hmm the devil really is in the detail isn't it. I've not yet dug into the nitty gritty just the headlines/demos - so that's something else t

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Robinson, Chuck
From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? +1 Just went down this road with a large design I had to do with a customer. What I did is have two MBX servers, that will be placed on

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Hutchings
0 18:42 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? Are you talking about having a hot site in the second location for failover? That's a job for Site Recovery Manager. Tuning Exchange depends on number of mailboxes, Public folders, Full outlook (cached m

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread John Cook
hange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? Hmm the devil really is in the detail isn't it. I've not yet dug into the nitty gritty just the headlines/demos - so that's something else that's new. OK let's start again :) Assuming two separate loc

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Hutchings
with? From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: 07 September 2010 18:38 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? +1 Just went down this road with a large design I had to do with a customer. What I did is have two MBX servers, that wi

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Andy Shook
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? Not supported. You choose a particular HA technology to use and stick with it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tu

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Hutchings
ent: 07 September 2010 18:31 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? You have to keep in mind that Fault Tolerance in VSphere is still restricted to one processor and that's not going to change anytime real soon. If you need high availability (whi

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread John Cook
thcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? Not supported. You choose a particular HA technology to use and stick with it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Hutchings
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 07 September 2010 18:23 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? Not supported. You choose a particular HA technology to use and stick with it. Regards, Michael B.

RE: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
Subject: Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy? We're currently using Exchange 2003 but should be going to 2010 in the next few months. In terms of performance, a single server should do the job, so that leaves redundancy. I'm interested in peoples experiences of things like vSp

Exchange 2010 on vSphere - Redundancy?

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Hutchings
We're currently using Exchange 2003 but should be going to 2010 in the next few months. In terms of performance, a single server should do the job, so that leaves redundancy. I'm interested in peoples experiences of things like vSphere Fault Tolerance combined with things like DAG groups?