Care to share the size of your environment? -----Original Message----- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange
We have a test environment with Exchange clusters and it is very sensitive and stops occasionally and is small (100 test users). I doubt our production environment would survive virtualization with the number of users we have. Search for 'VMware Dell Exchange white paper" and you will find the white paper with information on Exchange 2003. VMware itself claims to be running all their Exchange servers in a VMware environment (big shock I know) and they are more then happy to provide access to reps/engineers to talk about it pretty much anytime. I myself am not comfortable with the concept of running an Exchange mailbox server on VMware due to disk i/o concerns in my environment but yours may be different. Things I have heard about Exchange 2007 will cause me to research that as a separate issue because the IO load is supposed to have been significantly reduced so the impact will probably be less. Any MS support concerns are a separate issue and for the most part can be dealt with if you are of sufficiently sized support contract. Virtualization depends on your environment. There are to many test environments alone out there proving it will work, it depends on will it work in your environments supporting your users and their expectations. Steven Peck On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team EITC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ~ 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> ~
