Microsoft vs VMware on Exchange Virtualization and HA Best Practices

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I recently pointed out the difference between Microsoft and VMware guidance on mixing Exchange Server 2010 DAGs with hypervisor HA features. In short, Microsoft clearly states that hypervisor HA features should be disabled for DAG members, while VMware considers it to be an effective solution

Exchange Server 2010 DAGs and VMware High Availability

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If you are planning to deploy Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Groups, and you virtualize your Exchange environment, then it is important to understand the supported scenarios.

Installing VMWare Tools on Windows Server 2008 Core

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When installing the VMWare tools on a core install of Windows Server 2008 some people are confused to find that nothing happens after selecting “Install/Upgrade VMWare Tools” from the client window. Even though the VMWare Tools image mounts to the virtual CD-ROM drive it does not autorun as you would expect in a normal install [...]

Exchange Server 2007 is now supported for hardware virtualisation

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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 [...]

VMWare to release VMWare ESXi for free

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I saw Dan’s post on this subject and did a little Googling and lo and behold, VMWare have announced that their ESXi product will be released for free. I’m no VMWare guy like these guys , but as I understand it ESXi is the skinny little hypervisor (clocking in at 32mb) that lets you run [...]

Flashy graph proves Microsoft virtualisation more cost effective than VMWare

You can’t argue with this Dan. Source