Introductory Resources

White Papers

• Exchange 2010 on VMware – Use cases
• Exchange 2010 on VMware – Best Practices Guide
• Exchange 2010 on VMware – Availability and Recovery Options
• Exchange 2010 on VMware – Design and Sizing Examples
• Exchange 2010 on VMware – Support and Licensing Guide
• Exchange 2007 on VMware – Performance
• 16,000 Exchange Users Solution on a VMware/EMC Environment
• Deployment Guide – Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 on VMware
• Deploying Exchange Server 2007 on VMware Infrastructure: A VMware Internal Case Study
• Dell - Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with VMware ESX Server 3
• HP - Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 mailbox roles on VMware Infrastructure 3 using HP ProLiant servers and HP Storageworks
• NetApp - Microsoft Exchange 2007 on VMware Infrastructure 3 and NetApp iSCSI Storage

Featured Resources

• Best Practices for Virtualizing Active Directory
  2008 paper describing techniques and best practices for deploying Active Directory.
• Free Exchange "Getting Started" Kit

Success Stories

• Navy Marine Corps Intranet (350,000 mailboxes)
  Virtualize 350,000 Exchange 2003 mailboxes to control costs, improve availability, and increase manageability.
• University of Plymouth
  Run a large 50,000 mailbox Exchange deployment at lower cost, simplify availability and disaster recovery, while increasing Exchange manageability.
• Nuvasive
  Consolidate BlackBerry, Exchange, and SAP infrastructure. Accelerate deployment and improve availability and disaster recovery.
• Boise Inc.
  Consolidate Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle Databases infrastructure, simplify systems management, and develop a disaster-avoidance plan.
• The Cleveland Indians Company
  Consolidate Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server infrastructure, implement a streamlined Disaster Recovery plan, and increase application manageability.
• ViaHealth
  Consolidate large Oracle and SQL databases, Exchange, and McKesson. Reduce TCO, simplify administration, provide greater control over computing resources, and increase availability.
• Alstom
  AccelerateBlackBerry Enterprise Server deployment and scale dynamically to meet growing user demands.
• Bowdoin College
  Use VMware Infrastructure 3 to maintain a cost-effective enterprise-class disaster recovery solution for Exchange and several other critical applications.
• Genilogix
  Create entirely virtualized IT environments that eliminate server sprawl, provide optimum availability and deliver excellent disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange.
• Princeton Softech
  Use VMware Infrastructure and VMware Lab Manager as lab automation solutions for creating, capturing, suspending, indexing, archiving and recreating testing environments. Read our White Papers.