exchange in VM, performace etc

larkspur

anyone running ms exchange server 2000 or higher in VM environment?
If so how many mailboxes and what kind of performance are you seeing?

astorrs

I know lots of people doing it with ESX, here are some best practices:

Deploying Microsoft Exchange in VMware Infrastructure
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/701

And here is a capacity test from VMware:

16,000 Exchange Mailboxes, 1 Server
http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2008/02/16000-exchange.html

larkspur

thanks for the links.

I am hoping to hear from someone who is actually doing it.

astorrs

You'll have better luck on the VMware communities, I've saved you some typing:

http://communities.vmware.com/search.jspa?q=exchange&resultTypes=BLOG_POST&resultTypes=DOCUMENT&resultTypes=MESSAGE&resultTypes=BLOG&resultTypes=COMMUNITY&peopleEnabled=true&dateRange=all&communityID=2683&communityID=2632&communityID=2411&communityID=2410&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001

larkspur

much grass sir.