We've had a number of customers ask us whether or not we support virtualized Exchange Server 2010 deployments. The answer is firmly, YES! We know there are many customers running on under-utilize...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Answering Exchange Virtualization Questions and Addressing Misleading VMware Guidance
Hi Jim,
"Microsoft does not support combining Exchange high availability (DAGs) with hyper-visor based clustering..."
Along with HA, DAG's are the recommended backup method for Exchange 2010 so the result of this policy is that deployments will not virtualize the mailbox role. It’s unfortunate that MS use their support agreements to slow down non-MS infrastructure deployments until their own product is ready but let’s wait and see what happens when Hyper-V can technically run DAG's on a clustered hyper-visor; likely we will see a change in support policy. Remember visualization support for Exchange 2007; none until MS released Hyper-V then they broadened their support policy to include 3rd party virtualization products; let’s hope so as Exchange 2010 on a clustered hyper-visor (any brand) looks to be a great solution for both HA capabilities and lowering operations requirementscosts
johnk
"Microsoft does not support combining Exchange high availability (DAGs) with hyper-visor based clustering..."
Along with HA, DAG's are the recommended backup method for Exchange 2010 so the result of this policy is that deployments will not virtualize the mailbox role. It’s unfortunate that MS use their support agreements to slow down non-MS infrastructure deployments until their own product is ready but let’s wait and see what happens when Hyper-V can technically run DAG's on a clustered hyper-visor; likely we will see a change in support policy. Remember visualization support for Exchange 2007; none until MS released Hyper-V then they broadened their support policy to include 3rd party virtualization products; let’s hope so as Exchange 2010 on a clustered hyper-visor (any brand) looks to be a great solution for both HA capabilities and lowering operations requirementscosts
johnk