Virtualizing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 on Dell™ Systems Running Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ by Dell and Microsoft
With the release of Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V there is a growing interest in deploying Exchange Server 2007 in virtualized environments. In a physical deployment, Microsoft recommends a maximum of 8 CPU cores and 32 GB of memory for a single Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server. In a virtualized environment, Exchange users can consolidate multiple Exchange Server Mailbox roles on a single physical server to take advantage of unused CPU cycles or available memory. Additional Exchange roles can be hosted on separate virtual machines (VM) and consolidated on a smaller number of physical servers to reduce hardware costs. Benefits of running Exchange in a virtualized environment ca...