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

[Ben DeMott]

>
> Our Edge Transport role is also a separate box, but will not be
> running Exchange.  Instead our consultant recommended Trend Micro
> IMSS.  I have it installed and running on SLES 10 filtering a test
> domain to a test postfix mail server, and so far I'm less than
> impressed (to be nice).  We may be going back to a better solution we
> used previously (hopefully!).


When I started at my last employer they were using Trend Micro - oh man
alive.
The filtering wasn't awful, but we had problems with the service not
restarting automatically with the server itself.
We had times when they (trend micro) performed updates and messed up their
filtering rules.
A woman with the last name Dyke was always filtered from our company, our
explicit ALLOW rules were always overridden by its built-in filtering rules.
When it filters an outgoing message it removes the attachment, and gives no
indication why the message was filtered other than a general 'rule
exception' statement.
I had users all the time that would forward an email not saving the
attachment, then for any given reason their attachment would be deleted and
the file lost forever :)
The management and administration interface is very poorly organized.
Pretty much to sum up, it just breaks all the rules of 'good software'.

So my $0.02 is to avoid it if you can.


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Benjamin Eavey <ben at eavey.com> wrote:

> > 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://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx>
>
> http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm
>
> -Ben
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