MS On Virtualising Your Exchange 2007 SP1 Environment

There’s always questions about virtualising SQL and Exchange servers.  We know that Hyper-V performs really well and the advice is that you should be concerned about virtualising something that needs too much CPU or disk I/O.  They’d be candidates for physical deployments.  Everyone’s idea of large and heavy is relative.  You might consider your SBS server to be heavy weight.  You might consider a 4 server Exchange 2007 server deployment to be heavy.  MS thinks of that as small!

The Exchange team has done a good post on virtualising Exchange 2007 and even give some sample architectures.  They give 3 interesting solutions too, from the “small” deployment, virtual DR and an office in a can.

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