We were going to cluster it and try it in the lab and try to see what our performance is. Our serves will be DL585, quad proc quad core, with 64GB Ram. Attached will be a NetAPP 6080 with fiber channel connections. I'm not sure IO issues will be a concern. However, MS is strongly recommending not to virtualizing the back ends and the SQL boxes. (SQL boxes are nowhere near taxed) In fact, no server in our capacity planner had processor utilization over 25% peak and very low IO requests....
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange 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: [email protected] 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 MicrosoftR Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
