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Virtulising Exchange Server
Can i successfully run Exchange 2007 or 2010 in a vmware environment. Server has around 400 mailboxes.
yes, make sure you have lot of ram and high performance storage.
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As a follow up to my previous post, you may find this helpful:
http://www.vmware.com/file
I gives you some information specific to virtualizing exchange, as well as some pre-approved sizing templates approved by Microsoft & VMWare, to help you with the initial resource allocation of your Exchange virtual machine.
http://www.vmware.com/file
I gives you some information specific to virtualizing exchange, as well as some pre-approved sizing templates approved by Microsoft & VMWare, to help you with the initial resource allocation of your Exchange virtual machine.
Exchange 2010 System Requirements Page (Click on Hardware Virtualization)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719.aspx
VMWare is on the MS list of approved virtualization platforms.
You can virtualize it ;
Just a suggestion :
When you have 64BIT Hardware, why not use Microsoft Hyper-V to Virtualize exchange ;
You can setup physical pass through disks for your Mailbox Databases (Mailbox Server) or use fixed size VHDs or VMDKs.
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/migration-deployment/running-exchange-2010-on-hyper-v-r2.html
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/253897