Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V

If you are planning to virtualize your Exchange 2010, see the below document, it outlines all the best practices provided by Microsoft for virtualizing Exchange 2010:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8647c69d-6c2c-40ca-977e-18c2379b07ad

In addition to above best practices document, I posted an article a while ago regarding Transitioning Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 over Hyper-V, which has pretty nifty Implementation Flow diagram, which will surely help you to transition your legacy Exchange environment smoothly to Exchange 2010.

http://zahirshahblog.com/2011/02/10/step-by-step-upgrade-exchange-2007-to-exchange-2010-exchange-2010-implementation-on-hyper-v/

Here are some more great news about Virtualizing Exchange 2010:

Exchange 2010 SP1 UM Role is now supported over Hyper-V, see the below blog post from Steve Goodmans blog:

http://www.stevieg.org/2011/05/unified-messaging-now-supported-in-a-virtual-machine-with-exchange-server-2010-sp1/

Exchange 2010 SP1 DAG Member Mailbox Servers are now supported for Hyper-V Base Machine Clustering: see the blog post of EighTwOne (821) blog:

http://eightwone.com/2011/05/14/exchange-2010-sp1-live-migration-supported/
Cheers!

Zahir Hussain Shah
Infrastructure Practice Consultant – Enterprise Messaging
MCSE, MCTS, MCTIP Enterprise Administrator, ITIL
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