During my session at the recent Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC), I revealed Microsoft’s preferred architecture (PA) for Exchange Server 2013. The PA is the Exchange Engineering Team’s prescript...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Why the recommendation for hosting Exchange on physical servers? Microsoft is propagating all workloads to be virtualized on Hyper-V, so I don't get why Exchange 2013 should be running on physical servers. The arguments given in this article to host Exchange
on physical servers, are quite weak. First, most of the infrastructures I've seen have the capacity to host Exchange in VM's in worst case scenario's, second, the complexity which is added by virtualize Exchange, is actually no complexity, as SysAdmins are
getting more and more proficient into managing virtual platforms. It's like the Exchange department is contradicting Microsoft's vision of putting everything in the cloud (which means in this case virtualizing the workloads). Please enlighten me (-: