Exchange 2007 SP1 Hyper-V Support
Found this over at Is this thing on? – Scott Schnoll’s very informative blog. Looks like Exchange 2007 will in fact be supported on Hyper-V. I didn’t really doubt this would happen but a number of my colleagues have questioned it.
In terms of best practices and requirements, Brent shared the following:
- We’re only supporting guests running Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008.
- We’re only supporting fixed disks, and not dynamic disks.
- Storage should be on spindles that are separate from the Guest operating system VHD physical storage.
- Storage must be SCSI passthrough or iSCSI (with a preference of SCSI passthrough for queues, databases and log files).
- All Exchange server roles, except for the Unified Messaging server role, will be supported.
- For backup, hardware VSS should be used.
- There’s a limit on VHD size of 2040 GB.
Check out the original entry for all the details… [ LINK ]