I had to prepare a meeting on virtualizing Exchange 2007 on a VMware VI3.5 environment. While searching the internet I found an enormous amount of pdf’s and whitepapers and decided to share them with you:
VMware.com:
- Deploying Microsoft Exchange in VMware Infrastructure
- 16,000 Exchange Mailboxes, 1 Server – VMware VROOM!
- Virtualization Solutions for Exchange Server 2007
- Advantages of Virutalizing Exchange 2007 with VMware® Infrastructure 3
- EMC Virtual Solution for Exchange 2007
- Migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 on VMware Infrastructure 3
- HP Performance Paper: Exchange 2007 on VI3
- Dell Performance Paper: Exchange 2003 on VMware and EMC Storage
- Dell Article: Virtualizing MS Exchange Server 2007
- EqualLogic Performance Paper: Storage Solution for Exchange 2007
- Best Practices: Deploying MS Exchange on VMware
- Technical FAQ: EMC Virtual Solution for Exchange 2007
- Case Study: CA XOsoft and VMware
- Case Study: UTexas Disaster Recovery
- Deploying Exchange Server 2007 on VMware Infrastructure: A VMware Internal Case Study
VMworld.com:
- BC2824: Deploying Microsoft Clustering for Exchange and SQL Server in VI3
- BC3221: CA and VMware: A Case Study Examining an Exchange and SharePoint DR and HA Solution
- EA2263: Deploying Exchange 2007 on VMware Infrastructure 3
- EA3022 Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Roles on VMware Infrastructure 3
- EA3124 Achieving 80% Virtualization in Production (with SQL & Exchange)
- EA3127 Exchange 2007 on VMware: Two Real-World Success Stories
- AP03 Virtualization of Microsoft Exchange Server
- WV18 Virtualizing Exchange 2007 – The Final Frontier?
- WV19 Exchange and SQL on ESX Server
(You’ll need an account to access the VMworld material)
Cisco / EMC / VMware:
WOW! That’s a great resources. Hey, do you have by any chance anything similar for MOSS2007?! I’ve been searching all over for anything official from VMware but no luck.
microsoft.com:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548.aspx
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp
Step 1: 64 bit ESX hosts (unless using the special Microsoft 32 bit Exchange VM)
Great stuff, see my blog.
Jason, what special vm?
Thanks for the links, I’ve assimilated them and will be outputting them to my website shortly
If you have a EMC powerlink login, I can give you another 20 more (heck, I could give you another 50). We just published (this wed)a “Metropolitan Clustering solution using E2K7 on VMware”, I was about to do a post on the blog about it. There are usually about 40 of these per quarter – we have 1500 ESX servers that just do this 24hs a day 7 days a week.
Duncan – you have access – ping me if you don’t know how.
There’s also 5 MOSS on VMware docs posted there. They have detailed scaling, performance, and configuration info.
The performance info is why we don’t post on the internet (stupid reason – as the 800 lb gorilla, everyone attacks any perf data we post – I say we do it regardless).
The Vmworld links do not work anymore.
FYI
Roger L