I'm not up on EX 07 and I certainly have much less knowledge about it than Ed, Dean, Chris, and other gurus on this list.
However, I know a bit about VMware virtualization and I have to say it's not for everything and everyone. As Ed pointed out, you have to ask management what they're trying to accomplish by running EX on VMware. Have they just read an article in e-week or one of other trade magazines and decided that's the way to go? Virtualization and VMware is mainly intended for those under-utilized (memory, CPU-wise) "One-APP" servers, not heavily used and strained Exchange, SQL or Citrix, etc. servers. Just my 2 cents! Btw Albert, as of now only VMware supports 64-bit VMs. Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Duro Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Exchange and VMWare I can't say much about Exchange on VMWare, but for what it's worth, I can relate my disastrous experience in trying to run 07 on MS Virtual Server. (lab situation) Turns out you cannot install 64-bit Exchange 07 on a 64-bit MSVS! You can only run 32-bit software on a 64-bit Virtual Machine. Makes perfect sense. To the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, anyway. As soon as I got a grip on myself, I saw that I had a gorgeous Virtual Server all dressed with nowhere to go. It would be a shame to waste it (and having taken much longer to build, upgrade, and patch than a real server), so if I couldn't put the REAL Exchange on it, why not try the 32-bit evaluation Exchange 07? It would still be a good lab thingy. It installed allright. Sort of. But it was unstable and buggy -- never worked right. Now that DID make sense: a 32-bit impersonator running in a 64-bit Virtual Machine on 64-bit hardware just wasn't going to be very happy. So I flattened the Virtual Server and turned to more sensible pursuits. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miller, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:17 AM Subject: Exchange and VMWare Hello all. I hope this topic has not been beat to death. We plan on upgrading to Exchange 2007 early next year. One of the ideas from manegemnt is to run exchange 2007 on VMWare and a SAN. My main areas of concern are support (see the links below), and performance (I/O). We have 72 offies, 90+% being 500 users or less. Anyone else running Exchange 2007 on VMWare/SAN. Any issues with support from MS and/or I/O? Any thoughts and suggestions would be much appreciated... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320220/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615/ TIA This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the error and then immediately delete this message. Click here or visit www.bakernet.com/disclaimer_bm for other important information concerning this message. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] t.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
