Answering Exchange Virtualization Questions and Addressing Misleading VMware Guidance

For over 15 years our team has focused on defining system requirements and support guidelines which ensure our customers have the best possible experience deploying and managing their Exchange environments.  We strongly advise customers against deploying in unsupported configurations on the promise of support from a 3rd party.  We do recognize, however, that many of our customers see virtualization as an increasingly important component of their Exchange deployment plans and will continue to work with our own Hyper-V team and VMWare to provide responsible guidance which is in the best interests of our mutual customers.  Despite our disagreements, we are happy to see VMWare’s enthusiasm for doing what is best for our mutual customers and look forward to working with Alex, Scott, and others at VMWare who share this common commitment.