Re: is vmware used in customer development purpose?

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:07:05 +0000 (UTC), Niclas Eriksson
<niclas.eriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Andy David {MVP},

That's correct. You need to be able to recreate any problems on a physical
machine. Stupid as it sounds but that's life. When will MS fix that I wonder?
How can they not support such a widely spread VM? VmWare is by far the most
common VM plattform and in my eyes much more stable and reliable than MS VM.
But I can understand it from a MS point of view, they want their hypervizor
to be the largest asap so it's easier for them just to say that they don't
support VmWare or other hypervizors other than MS.

Well, remember , at one time they didnt support Sybari AV on Exchange
either. Then they bought the company. :P



A bit off topic, but anyway.. :-)

/Niclas


On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:46:09 +0000 (UTC), Niclas Eriksson
<niclas.eriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello shivaraj,

We have almost every server virstulized in VmWare ESX and don't see
any problems. We don't have all the Exchange servers virtual but all
the FE servers are VM's and one BE server, no cluster though so I
can't say anything about that. But be sure you have performance
enough. For instance we have all our DC's as VM's, haven't seen any
problems.

Its not supported in production however.

/Niclas

On Jan 30, 7:41 am, "Leezy" <le...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

so... does this means its a "BIG NO" for Cluster on VM Server?

but, every one is moving into VM now days ...

"Oliver Moazzezi [MVP]" <o.moazzez...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
messagenews:e%23yD4chXIHA.4476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I know someone that installed it into production. Total horror
story on what this company did. Not only were the cluster nodes
virtualised, they hosted multiple VM's on the actual servers that
had the cluster node images on them..

Suffice to say it was total s**t, and I would have fired whoever
it was that designed it and signed it off for production :-)

Dev and Test labs only!!

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Thanks for your inputs.
Even I came to know from some other sources that no production
environment will have exchange on vmware.
Cheers,
Shivaraj

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