Re: Virtual Exchange 2007 by Alex
Alex
Wed Mar 05 16:22:06 CST 2008
On Mar 5, 4:37=A0pm, "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <cursp...@mvpsnospam.org> wrote:
> Do you want to be supported?
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> Ed Crowley
> MVP - Exchange
> "Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"
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> "Alex Moffitt" <slacker...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:6b573d0a-3967-495c-afec-2221d051994f@u72g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Mar 5, 2:59 pm, "Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m...@mvps.org> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:28:44 -0800 (PST), Alex Moffitt
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> > <slacker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >I am currently running ubuntu server + Vmware server, I am about to
> > >install exchange 2007 but I don't know how much resources it will
> > >use.
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> > >We plan on having 400 users
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> > >What kind of impact will it have on the disks with I/O issues.
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> > >On another virtual machine we will have SQL server with 10 concurrent
> > >users on at any given time.
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> > >The machine is a poweredge 2900 with dual 2.4 xeons 24GB of ram
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> > >we currently have 8 10,000 RPM SATA drives in a RAID 10
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> > >There is also 2 other machines running on it, one is a file server and
> > >one is an AD controller
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> > >Simple question: Can we run Exchange 2007 comfortably without noticing
> > >any performance issues? (it will have 4GB of ram)
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> > Exchange 2007 is not supported in any virtualisation whatsoever. Your
> > planning to host 400 users mean you will have at least two boxes, one
> > for mailboxes and another for the CAS/HT roles, possibly even three if
> > you split those roles out.
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> > If you ask me, and you did when you asked here, the eight disks are
> > grossly insufficient for running 400 users worth of email, let alone
> > 400 users and the transaction logs, let alone planning on another
> > guest for SQL.
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> > Whilst I'm all in favour of using VMware for Exchange 2007 it has to
> > be your call in terms of how far down an unsupported path you want to
> > do. Whilst the box itself is more than up to the job of hosting a lot
> > of guests and even mailbox servers I'm not sure you're going to find a
> > whole lot of support for putting mailboxes on a guest.- Hide quoted text=
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> Well currently we have a self contained exchange 2003 setup with it's
> own AD controller in all virtual without any problems at all. Do you
> think there is a big enough difference that we shouldn't do it with
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I just want to know if it will work, or if we need to get better
hardware or something like that.