[GRLUG] VMWare ESXi Was: Raid, LVM, and Cheap Storage

[Benjamin Eavey]

> In fact Exchange 2007 requires 64bit Windows.  It will not run on 32bit.

It will run on 32-bit (if I remember correctly), but Microsoft won't
support it.  Testing only.


> They admitted that Exchange seems to run fine when virtualized, but
> they said it's not officially supported by Microsoft.  That was enough
> to kill the idea here.

No, Microsoft recently started supporting it.  Back in August, I
believe, because we were right in the planning stages of an Exchange
2007 deployment for a customer when Microsoft's policy changed.  We
virtualized it once we saw it was officially supported and verified it
with our Microsoft rep.  VMware is a supported virtualization
environment, too, so you're not limited to Hyper-V.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548(EXCHG.80).aspx

http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm

-Ben