Microsoft exchange 2010 on vmware best practices guide 3. Download this technical best practices guide on setting up and running microsoft exchange on nutanix. We wanted to take a minute and respond to the recent blog post by the microsoft exchange team answering exchange virtualization questions and addressing misleading vmware guidance. If you are going to deploy exchange on vmware, plan on keeping support contracts with both, and needing to work with both if something comes up.
The exchange 20 servers were hosted on vmware vsphere 5. Virtualizing microsoft applications with vmware vsphere on. This topic provides an overview of the scenarios that are supported for deploying exchange on hardware virtualization software. Virtualized exchange 2010 disaster recovery by emc vmax. You can, to a limited extent, use the same guidelines for exchange 2010.
Email, as we noted in last weeks blog, remains critical to business functions, and microsoft exchange is the most widely used email client in the world. Memory should be sized using standard best practices guidance. Your guide to virtualizing exchange 2010 on vsphere part 1. Announcing enhanced hardware virtualization support for. No matter the hypervisor used to virtualize exchange 2010, the support requirements remain the same. Exchange server 2010 is totally virtualization friendly, more so than exchange 2003 and exchange 2007. Vmware validated design for softwaredefined data center. But vsphere also offers many new options and capabilities that enable exchange to. With thousands of customers already virtualized and. Many vmware customers simply deploy exchange on vsphere exactly like they would deploy exchange on physical infrastructure. Virtualizing exchange server 2010 with windows server 2008. This idc white paper includes two case studies and a sidebar highlighting the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their tier 1 applications, abstract.
As of today, the following support scenarios are being updated, for exchange 2010 sp1, and later. Realistically it is very likely that as virtualization becomes more and more accepted as the normal way of providing server infrastructure, production exchange. Customers want to run their exchange environment on a virtualized platform. Watch this demo of how easy it is to virtualize microsoft exchange.
If you do, youll have to deal with memory ballooning, compression and paging all of which will diminish performance. I recently read via that vmware have released their best practices guide for exchange 2010. This guide provides best practice guidelines for deploying exchange server 2010 on vsphere. Unified messaging virtual machines have the following special requirements. From now exchange 2010 is completely supported to be run in a virtualized environment.
The ability to reduce hardware costs, lower energy costs, and improve overall operations in. We will briefly cover some of the more important features and reasons you might want to start planning for a virtualized exchange 2007 or 2010 environment. I recently pointed out the difference between microsoft and vmware guidance on mixing exchange server 2010 dags with hypervisor ha features. Microsoft now supports running exchange server 2007 in server virtualization environments, not just on hyperv, but on any virtualizing solution that is validated in the server virtualization validation program. The following terms are used in this discussion of exchange virtualization. Overcommitting memory with vmware vsphere is common and even recommended but dont overcommit memory when virtualizing exchange 2010. Virtualizing microsoft exchange server 2010 with netapp and vmware executive summary trends in exchange 2010 and virtualization the use of virtualization technology is spreading widely throughout companies in all vertical sectors. Exchange 2010 virtualization is proven, and advanced virtualization features will make exchange more reliable and improve uptime, while making the administrators life easier. Unified messaging server role combining exchange 2010 dag database availability groups with hypervisorbased clustering, high availability and migration solutions that move automatically failover mailbox servers that are members of a dag. Steps to virtualize and deploy a microsoft exchange server, along with resources for converting exchange cashub server or existing exchange server mailbox server. This has been the case with exchange server 2003 running on vmware, but microsoft has been supporting the virtualized exchange server since exchange server 2007 on windows server 2008. In previous iterations, exchange outlook clients would connect directly to the mailbox server and in exchange 2010 all client connections internal and external are terminated at the cas or by a pool of cas servers.
Vmware business critical applications readiness assessment tool. Tips for virtualizing microsoft exchange on vmware green. Microsoft hyperv, vmware and other virtualization platforms provide a great platform for exchange especially as you now have the comfort of knowing that the solution is supported. Msb hi microsoft released a new whitepaper on virtualizing exchange 2010 titled best practices for virtualizing exchange server 2010 with windows server 2008 r2 hyper v vmware released in november 2010 a white paper called microsoft exchange server 2010 on vmware vsphere best. It transpires this was actually released a couple of months ago, however its the first time ive seen it and i certainly think if you run vmware vsphere and plan on running exchange 2010 its worth a read vmware say in the best practices guide that exchange server 2010 is. Virtualizing microsoft exchange server 2010 with netapp. Advantages of leveraging hyperconverged infrastructure for your microsoft exchange deployment. Transform your microsoft environment with emc solutions for virtualizing microsoft on vmware, combining bestinclass emc and vmware virtualization technologies. When deploying exchange on to what was the old lefthand san i have used guest initiators inside the vm and created dedicated luns for the databases and logs this approach also allows you to use the snapshotting capabiltities of the san but it does not currently support quiescing of the os via vcenter as the p4000 series does not have this functionality yet is supposed to come in a. Virtualizing microsoft business critical applications on vmware vsphere. Four virtual processors are required for the virtual machine. Matt also worked with vmware to create content for their virtualizing business critical applications competency for vmwares partners and customers. This download enables you evaluate microsoft exchange server 2010 sp1 for 180 days.
Seems to be almost too coincidental that microsofts exchange blog published an article about virtualizing exchange on hyperv a few days after vmware mades posts and hosted a discussion concerning exchange. Demystifying exchange 2010 sp1 virtualization microsoft. Virtualizing microsoft business critical applications on. All exchange 2010 server roles, including unified messaging, are supported in a virtual machine. Cisco ucs and application delivery for microsoft hyperv. Virtualizing the microsoft email platform can yield infrastructure savings, and its not as risky as some it pros fear if done right. Is there any performance factors when virtualizing exchange 2010 server. Vmware storage virtualization stack microsoft exchange 2010 on vmware best practices guide the terms. How to virtualize microsoft exchange on vmware vsphere. Virtualizing exchange mixed messages from microsoft, vmware. Best practices for virtualizing exchange server 2010. Commonly windows network load balancing wnlb is used to load balance different roles of the exchange 2010 environment. Download best practices for virtualizing exchange server 2010 with.
He also holds numerous industry certifications from vmware and microsoft. This paper has been carefully composed to be relevant to organizations of any size. If there is an existing exchange environment you can download the exchange. Exchange 2010 on vmware best practices guide vmware. The exchange team at microsoft outlines the requirements for virtualizing exchange very well on the exchange system requirements technet page. If this interest you then you can go to powerlink and download the white paper and read in more detail.
Open forum for exchange administrators engineers architects and everyone to get along and ask questions. These solutions help to lower costs, enable flexibility, simplify management, and ensure a. Availability and recovery options it is important to note that this and other guides in this solution kit are limited in focus to deploying exchange on vsphere. In the post, microsoft expresses concerns around particular vmware guidance for deploying exchange database availability groups dag in conjunction with vmware ha. The customer saw a negative impact on the end user experience of outlook 2010 users, especially those working in online mode. Matt liebowitz is currently an advisory solution architect at emc consulting with a focus on virtualizing business critical applications. As you might already know, with exchange 2010 sp1 microsoft started supporting virtualizing exchange mailbox servers in dag and live migration. The recommendations in this guide are not specific to any particular set of hardware or to the size and scope of any particular exchange implementation. A cautious, systematic approach will yield the best results. Run microsoft exchange on vmware vsphere, not only for efficiency, improved availability, resilience and agility, but also for the costsaving benefits associated with better consolidation, density and more optimal resource utilization. Virtualizing exchange on hyperv best practices pdf. The microsoft exchange team is enhancing positioning by including additional supported scenarios regarding exchange server 2010 running under hardware virtualization software. Virtualization on the vsphere hypervisor enables an organization to allocate the required compute resources to an exchange server workload without wasting. Exchange 2010 on vmware for best practice slideshare.
The recommendations in this guide are not specific to any particular set of hardware or to the size and scope of. As you move through the process of virtualizing exchange server 2010, remember that exchange is a missioncritical enterprise application. About the author david davis is the author of the bestselling vmware vsphere video training library from trainsignal. He has been working as a consultant and architect for more than 12 years and has been working with vmwares virtualization technology since 2002. Partner community for virtualizing exchange virtualizing exchange can be very simple. Cloud hosting, hybrid cloud, cloud hosting, cloud storage, microsoft, vmware. Drs, and vmotion, can be used with virtualized exchange 2010 dag nodes. Download exchange server 2010 sp1 vhd from official microsoft.
Your guide to virtualizing exchange 2010 on vsphere part. Specific recommendations for optimizing microsoft exchange, virtualization components, networking, and the nutanix platform. The unified messaging server role is supported in a virtualized environment. Before virtualizing exchange server, you will need to be clear about the business advantages, and consider the size of the installation, otherwise the results can be a. In short, microsoft clearly states that hypervisor ha features should be disabled for dag members, while vmware considers it to be an effective solution. A critical step on the journey toward the private cloud. How to virtualize a microsoft exchange server petri. The document covers virtual environments running on both vmware vsphere 4. This session covers virtualization scenarios for exchange 2010 and how the combination of hyperv and microsoft system center solves them.
Microsoft vs vmware on exchange virtualization and ha best. This means that if your dl380s are twoway quadcore 8 cores, you can only have 16 virtual processors across all vms on that host. Tips on virtualizing proliant servers p2v spiceworks. To install microsoft exchange in a virtual environment, first you want to. How to virtualize microsoft exchange on vmware vsphere youtube. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying microsoft exchange server 2010 in a virtualized environment with windows server 2008 r2 hyper v technology. Virtualizing microsoft exchange server with hyperv tech. Follow the steps outlined below to minimize problems and streamline your exchange 2010 virtualization project. The release of this article at you had me at ehlo aka exchange blog team and the previous links from vmwares virtualized exchange discussions. As far as the official requirements for virtualizing exchange 2010. Matt is very honored to have been named a vmware vexpert each year since 2010, as well as an emc elect in 20.
You can deploy exchange server 2016 and exchange server 2019 in a virtualized environment. Best practices for virtualizing exchange 2010 on vsphere. In this case, deploy a new vm, install exchange, add the server to the dag, and. Post blog posts you like, kbs you wrote or ask a question. P2v migration for microsoft exchange servers the world. Exchange 2010 dag on vms hyperv and vmware and heartbeat.
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