We’ve been virtualising Exchange Server 2007 since it was first released but this week Microsoft has announced their official support policies for virtualised Exchange environments. It is a bit heavy on the Hyper-V but also references the list of support partners for non-Microsoft hardware virtualisation. When I checked this earlier in the week VMWare was a notable absence but today Dugie confirmed for me that they’ve been added to the list, which now stands as follows:
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Citrix Systems, Inc.
- Novell, Inc.
- Sun Microsystems
- Unisys Corp.
- Virtual Iron Software
- VMware, Inc.
If you’re planning an Exchange Server 2007 deployment using a virtualisation platform be sure to read Microsoft’s recommendations for sizing virtual machines.
