We're running LCS 2005sp1 (sniff, no ocs for me yet) and my diagrams clearly say VMware hosts on them This always gets me the Oh, we don't support it on VMware... where I respond with, well, let's see if we can identify the issue and if it's not hardware it's no problem and we'd all rather not call the TAM on silly things. They generally laugh and proceed to assist solving the problem.
There is a white paper from Dell and VMware on Exchange 2007 on VMware ESX. http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080147-Muirhead.pdf http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/03/16000-exchange.html http://www.mmmug.co.uk/blogs/nweb/archive/2007/09/14/1555.aspx There was also an interesting blog post I can't find that mentioned something I hadn't thought of. From memory, they mentioned that to achieve similar performance that the ESX hardware configuration had to exceed the calculated Exchange hardware specs by 20%. So pay attention to hardware. From experience pay serious attention to SAN. Make sure you have dedicated disks on the SAN for your Exchange because that IO latency will kill you if some random project gets dumped across your set of disks.. Steven On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Kevin Lundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was a configuration question ... a "how to", which is why I'm surprised > they stopped the call. Normally I don't call for config stuff, but we are > approaching the end of our contract and have hours to burn. It provided > some fodder for an email to our TAM for sure. > > Just trying IM and presence for now. > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > What was your support call about? OCS can be such a pain to make work….. > > > > > > > > > > ~Kevinm WLKMMAS > > > > powered by 3Sharp, Always WLKMMAS What is your Zombie Plan? > > > > > > > > > > From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:02 AM > > > > > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: Exch2007 in ESX > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We, today, had PSS tell us that on an OCS install - and we admitted the > install was a proof of concept, not production. I do not believe for an > instant that the problem we were having related to using VMWare. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I like to see "supported" as a grey area. > > > > They will answer your call, and they will help you. [1] It is up to them > at which time they say " we cannot support your setup, you need to install > this on supported hardware before we can go further" I have yet to hear > Microsoft say that on a call that I have made to PSS. It is a gamble. In > some environments you cannot do that, in others you can. It is up to company > to decide to roll those dice based on their needs and perceived benefits > from the "unsupported" configuration. > > > > "unsupported" means not tested, or that will not work. It is up the > support staff to figure that out where that line should be drawn. > > > > > > [1] they being Microsoft. > > > > > > > > ~Kevinm WLKMMAS > > powered by 3Sharp, Always WLKMMAS What is your Zombie Plan? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:33 AM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > > > > Subject: RE: Exch2007 in ESX > > > > When Hyper-V is released that configuration will be supported. I'm fairly > certain that running any version of Exchange on any beta OS is not a > supported config. ;-) > > TVK > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:19 AM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > > > > Subject: RE: Exch2007 in ESX > > > > Really? Its supported on Hyper-V, a piece of software that hasn't been > fully released yet? > > > > (currently running the RC and liking it, but nothing in production yet) > > > > -troy > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:56 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Exch2007 in ESX > > > > > > > > > > > > I virtualized everything.. Exchange 2007 works great visualized. It is > even fully supported if you use Hyper-V > > > > ~Kevinm WLKMMAS > > powered by 3Sharp, Always WLKMMAS What is your Zombie Plan? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:37 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: Exch2007 in ESX > > > > Anyone virtualized Exchange 2007? I'm getting mixed opinions. My Dell > server guys are saying performance would suffer too much. I also have a > local integrator who is a VMware and MS Gold Partner and says they > virtualize everything and that because my information store is only about > 25GB for approx 150 boxes I wouldn't have performance problems. 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