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Thank you for the response. Were you running it on Exch 2007 before 2010? Any issues from MS for support? 
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Thank you for the response. Were you running it on Exch 2007 before 2010? Any issues from MS for support?

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No, I started with Exchange 2010, Depending on how you connect up to your SAN, i would check your backup software to see what they support when it comes to backups. &nbsp;Some don't support and/or require you to run a separate backup process to pull from ISCI attatched storage etc. &nbsp;There is some homework involved but overall I think you will like it.
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No, I started with Exchange 2010, Depending on how you connect up to your SAN, i would check your backup software to see what they support when it comes to backups.  Some don't support and/or require you to run a separate backup process to pull from ISCI attatched storage etc.  There is some homework involved but overall I think you will like it.

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Sounds like a plan. Thanks for the quick response.
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Sounds like a plan. Thanks for the quick response.

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Hello,<br />
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We've been considering building a mailbox cluster running on VMware ESX4.1, Windows 2008R2 for a critical remote site 700 users. Were looking at VMware for many of the obvious virtualization benefits including its small hardware foot print, in a very small MDF. We can assume that ample resources are available for each Exch node since new hardware (very likely oversized, for future use) will be purchased along with SAN Storage. A 10GB link will be used (dedicated fiber) back to main site. What I am interested in knowing is if there are any drawbacks or other considerations to running Exchange over VMware for this project. <br />
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Thank you
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Hello,

We've been considering building a mailbox cluster running on VMware ESX4.1, Windows 2008R2 for a critical remote site 700 users. Were looking at VMware for many of the obvious virtualization benefits including its small hardware foot print, in a very small MDF. We can assume that ample resources are available for each Exch node since new hardware (very likely oversized, for future use) will be purchased along with SAN Storage. A 10GB link will be used (dedicated fiber) back to main site. What I am interested in knowing is if there are any drawbacks or other considerations to running Exchange over VMware for this project. 

Thank you

Exchange 2007 on VMware

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.