Exchange 2010 (HA) on VMWare

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• Exchange 2010 DAG + HA VMware

  Hi all

  I ve vsphere 4.1 and i´d like create an Exchange with 2 or more virtual machines.

  I need know if DAG and HA are supported to enable works.

  I read that it is not supported by Microsoft.

  What is a recommended in this scenario?

  Thanks

  As the says Paul, Microsoft has changed their position on what they are supported when running a virtualized Exchange 2010 infrastructure.  Change in favour HA is mainly a paper change on - he was technically no problem with using HA with Dag and having a node failed Dag simply restart on another ESXi host.  vMotion/DRS, however, certainly has a problem, and simply changing the support strategy does not make it work better.

  The short version - as you know during a vMotion there a momentary loss of network connectivity.  A DAG using Failover Clustering, it is very intolerant to even momentary loss of network connection.  I've seen several cases where people have tried to use vMotion against a mailbox server and the vMotion caused databases for failover.

  There is a time-out value of pulsation of cluster that you can set to allow the cluster to be more tolerant to the missed before it initiates a failover.  I spoke in the following blog:

  http://www.thelowercasew.com/vSphere-and-Exchange-Admins-can-live-in-harmony-Microsoft-finally-supports-HA-and-VMotion

  Also, make sure you use the latest version of Exchange and follow the instructions in the VMware KB:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1037959

  I hope this helps.  If you have other specific questions do not hesitate to reach out.

  Matt

  http://www.thelowercasew.com

• New to VMware and Exchange 2010

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware and have some questions about the installer.  We just bought a HP DL380 G7 server and Exchange 2010.  I want to virtualize this server with a BES.  I'm trying to understand the best way to proceed.  We also have a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN (PS4000).  Wouldn't it be better for me to boot from SAN and have ESxi installed on the SAN?  Or would it be preferable for ESxi installed on the server and have my VM hosted/installed on the SAN?  Thanks for the help.

  Hello owblueiii,

  I almose same infrastructure such as this, when I started the virtualization process was confused in this place, finally, we kept the boot on local, VMs oniSCSI SAN.

  advantages: 1. because if you have any questions you can the Como.

  2 and also a little difficult to troubleshoot if you have the on iscsi san boot partition.

  3. you can register your vms on san iscsi timing if you want the new ESX installation.

  Hope it's useful to your question.

• Exchange 2010 on EqualLogic - VMFS volume?

  Hello world

  I'm just in the planning stages of a deployment of Exchange 2010 (updated 03). Although I attended a good amount of EQL webinars on exchange and read probably each best practice doc out there, I can't get a clear answer on a pretty important point - how best to organize storage.  It is a relatively small exchange deployment (500 mailboxes, 1 PS4000XV, 2 Dell R910 on vSphere 5).

  I can't find a consensus on how to organize storage. Ce_que I speak to you is either A) make data changes a simple disk VMDK (in a VMFS on the EQL volume), or B) doing the volume of exchange data sit directly on the SAN (i.e. RDM or iSCSI Target, so that data exchange is not inside VMFS).

  Everything I read seems to say that the ASM / me tools to be able to speak the volume directly on the SAN, making the B option to go with. I know there could be advantages and disadvantages at the same time, so maybe an option isn't a slam dunk, but there opinions out there on the issue? Best practices?

  There is no 'perfect' here answer.  There is what works best for your situation.

  If you want to take advantage of the DSO / offers ME and most do, then you must use invited inside the OS MS iSCSI initiator to connect to volumes of data and logs.   VMFS or RDM does not work

  .  A feature key with Exchange integration is the exchange administrator may without the GUI EQL access, create a recovery storage group and restore individual mailboxes on the fly from a snapshot.  It is run entirely from the ASM / ME GUI.

  You can also schedule consistent snapshots to check with the ESEUTIL command on another node, thus freeing the Exchange Server.   Here's just a sample of the DSO / ME features.

  In addition, for optimal performance, you would have different cards for VMware iSCSI and iSCSI comments traffic.

  Kind regards

  -don

• vSphere 6 and Exchange 2010

  Hi all

  We want to improve our ESXis where are hosted Exchange 2010 VMs. We are planning to upgrade to VMware ESXi 6.0 U1a.

  Do you know if this version of vSphere is supported by Microsoft? Servers OS of Exchange is Windows Server 2012 Standard.

  Thank you

  you are welocme

  Yes, you are right... it is not supported YET... but take in mind that 6.0 U1 was released last month... so you have to wait a few days/weeks until they test the release.

  but it is quite clear that they will also add u1 to list supported... then you can go ahead with the update... don't you worry that

• Virtualize Exchange 2010 - get the right IOPS / s

  Hello

  I am virtualizing Exchange 2010. I worked on my ES Ops / s to accommodate thousands of users, the discs that I have, once accounting for overhead of RAID 10 is is roughly cut it in terms of IOPS / s at full capacity.

  My needs of data store are several terabytes.

  My question is if I use VMFS, being that there is a layer of abstraction for the underlying storage, always will I receive my IOPS / s gross at the end?

  I'd better off using RDM in terms of IOPS / s?

  Thank you

  better performance would probably be rdm but it seems that vmfs can follow

  "There is no specific recommendation to use VMFS or RDM in Exchange deployments.

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Exchange_2010_on_VMware_-_Best_Practices_Guide.PDF

• Notifications will not be sent by e-mail - Exchange 2010

  I looked high and low, read the manual and search the forums and I can't understand it.
  Environment:

  VCenter/vSpeher 4.1 - ESXi 4.1

  vCenter OpMan 5.0

  Server Exchange 2010-1 Cas/HT 1 Server mbx
  I have vCenter opman set up to report to my corporate email address when the health or risk alerts occur at critical or immediate level.  It is set to the name of the object: checked world for all children.

  In the Console of Administration- http:// < ipaddressofvApp > / admin I have configure the smtp Protocol to point to my CASE 2010 Exchange and server HT.  I use the administrator account to vcenter which has its own mailbox on the exchange server and is a member of the domain.

  I left the ip address of the vcenter and VAPP receive connector to connect via an already configured in Ex2010.  No emails... never.

  Today, I created a new connector to receive specially selected vCenter OpMan and TLS security.  no emails

  SMTP is running on vCenter.  but I guess I'm not sure what server sends these notifications... is what the Windows Server that I run vCenter on?  What is supplied with the appliance of OpMan Quasi-linux servers?

  I looked on the Ex2010 Server tracking logs and no emails have come to the exchange of the address I have provided above.  Can what newspapers in vmware I consult to help investigate this issue?  I see a lot of documentation on how to configure these notifications, but they fail / fall short by telling you things like how to make them actually work in your messaging environment.

  I don't think that it must be complicated.  I bought vCenter OpMan so I could see what is happening, and it is not uncommon to notifications by e-mail on these things.

  I appreciate the thoughts and the time spent on this from anyone.

  Tony

  follow these steps

  (1) connect to the VM user with the admin user interface

  (2) run "vcops-admin smtp del" to RESET the SMTP settings

  (3) replace the CLI-online whole vcops-admin...

  -The log search questions by e-mail about communication with SMTP server is "analytics.log" on the "Analytics-VM.

  -newspapers to search for configuration problems (for example, by setting the parameters) are on the "VM UI', / var/log/vmware-> admin.log, vcops - admin.log and vcops - admin.cmd.log

  Thank you!

• Exchange 2010 BPA - outdated drivers

  Hi, I've got Exchange 2010 is installed and when you run the best practices Analyzer, he wrote:

  Network driver interface file "c:\windows\system32\drivers\asyncmac.sys' for 'AsyncMac' on the X server is more than two years. Contact your provider to find out if there is a newer version.

  Storage driver file "c:\windows\system32\drivers\lsi_sas.sys" for "Adapter LSI, SAS 3000 series, port 8 with 1068' on the X server is more than two years. Contact your provider to find out if there is a newer version.

  Am I right in thinking the VMTools drivers and the message is safe to ignore? Otherwise, for updating them I guess I need to update the VM Tools versions, but this version does match ESX versions or can they be higher?

  Sorry for the delay in responding.  I have not encountered this specific problem, but I don't think it's what worry.  I would make sure that VMware tools are running the latest version available on your host computer.  Do not install a version of VMware Tools of a higher revision of ESXi, you are running.

  Matt

  http:.// www.thelowercasew.com

• Exchange 2010 and high availability (redundancy)

  Hello

  If virtualize us Exchange 2010 on VMware and Vmotion used for high availability (redundancy). (that is, if we do not have to use Exchange clusters.)  Claims we're still two x licenses Exchange 2010?

  Thank you

  Yes, you will need two exchange server license, if you have less than 5 databases in exchange, you can opt for the standard edition of Exchange. However the operating system you will be required Enterprise edition, as it is necessary for the cluster configuration.

• Configure load balancing NETWORK for Exchange 2010

  Hello guys.

  I need help. Where I work, we have a project where we configure Exchange 2010 DAG and some other stuff, and we have 2 ESX with 1 CAD server and a Server CASE/HUB too on both of them and that we want to use the NLB on these two hosts.

  I found this, and this is much like what we want:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1006525

  So now our switch we want to create a virtual IP address for each of them, but we are not sure if we need to create a cluster on our servers for this.

  Did someone done this before that could give me some advice or contains information to make this work?

  Thanks for your help.

  Howdy,

  Am I was right assuming you want balancing two virtual computers CASE/Hub and NO servers DAG?  If Yes, then we are good to proceed... (if you want to do DAG servers load balancing, or if the DAG servers have all three roles, MBX/CASE/Hub, then Windows NLB is prohibited).

  You don't need to create a cluster as in MSCS or the Windows failover cluster, but do not create a pool of machines for load balancing.  You must install the components of Windows NLB on each machine virtual (VM Hub/CASE) and then follow the procedures described in this document: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/implmenting_ms_network_load_balancing.pdf to correctly configure the ESX host.  There are two ways to configure a WNLB, using the multicast and uni-cast (by default).  Uni-cast requires configuration changes side ESX (detailed in the document), multi-cast has some dependencies upstream network, mainly adding static arp entry in the router.

  Take a read through the white book (it was written by VI3, but the same thing applies in vSphere) and let me know if you have any questions.

  -alex

  Check out our Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps

• Exchange 2010

  Is anyone using Exchange 2010 in ESXi 4.1? We are thinking of doing, but to see if someone there it already running smoothly.  Our material will be 32 hearts, thorn 10 GB backbone, 8vCPus and 32 GB of RAM on a VAM.

  Any suggestions would be very appreicated.  Thank you

  VMware maintains a team of performance that keeps a blog called VROOM! (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/). This time with a frequency analysis applications and publishes the results of their study - which was very useful in that it is planning to virtualize applications. The turn is Exchange 2010.

  What is the optimal size for a virtual machine running Exchange 2010? 2 vCPUs? What is the impact on response time to add one vCPU more? This type of information you will find in Exchange 2010 Scale-Up Performance on vSphere. http://blogs.VMware.com/performance/2010/05/Exchange-2010-scaleup-performance-on-vSphere.html

  To get an idea of how servers Exchange 2010 with virtualized behave with respect to storage, see Exchange 2010 Disk I / O on vSphere. http://blogs.VMware.com/performance/2010/05/Exchange-2010-disk-IO-on-vSphere.html

  More information on the page on Exchange virtualized. http://www.VMware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/Exchange/

• vSphere and Microsoft Exchange 2010

  Hello anyone know of a guide of best practices for the configuration of Exchange 2010 on vSphere.  I think mainly to Cluster Dag requriements regarding HA, DRS and FT

  If you have found this device or any other answer useful please consider useful or correct buttons using attribute points

  Tom Howarth VCP / vExpert

  VMware communities user moderator

  Blog: www.planetvm.net

  Author of the contribution on "[VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: securing ESX and virtual environment | ]. [ http://www.amazon.co.uk/VMware-VSphere-Virtual-Infrastructure-Security/dp/0137158009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 & s = books & qid = 1256146240 & sr = 1-1] & rdquo; .

  Author of the contribution on "[VCP VMware Certified Professional on VSphere 4 Study Guide: Exam VCP-410 | ]. [ http://www.amazon.co.uk/VMware-Certified-Professional-VSphere-Study/dp/0470569611] ».

  Tom if you can wait a week or two there were also a few sessions at VMworld on this specific topic.  I would like to keep an eye on for them when they go out in public for more information as well.

  -Kyle

  «"RParker wrote: I guess I was mistaken, everything CAN be virtualized"»

• Configuration of Exchange 2010

  We are the conversion of Novell Groupwise to Exchange 2010 this spring and I have a few questions about what VMWare products, we apply the following.

  1 being able to transfer server virtual exchange to another server Vsphere4.  I assume that you would use Vmotion, correct?

  2 implement a DAG (direct bed group) on the initial period of the Exchange Server installation.   That's what I don't understand?  This is a copy of your database to exchange, correct?   In a failover on one VMware Server situation, what other/s of product are needed for the virtual server exchange to transfer on the Vsphere server roles to operate automatically.

  3. we are currently on VSphere 4, standard servers, what level do we need upgrade "Advanced" or "Business" in order to have this capacity?

  I apolgize to my ignorance here, but we just to enter the virtualization and I'm certainly not to speed on all the virtual technologies!

  Thanks in advance

  TAndrist

  I would like to clear a few things here...

  1 Exchange of solutions of high availability with DAG is not similar to the DRS and HA... For DAG you are going to have two replicas (one active and one passive)... VMware HA... just migrate the virtual machine to another host it turn off and turn on/off it.

  2. for the implementation of high availability Exchange, you can configure it with MSCS in VMware (MSCS with Physical to Virtual) environment, MSCS with virtual to virtual, for more details on configuring MSCS in VMware... see http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_mscs.pdf

  3. my installation works fine with virtual to virtual for quite some time... and I'm happy with it. If the answers to your questions...

  «A. be able to transfer the server virtual exchange to another server Vsphere4.» I assume that you would use Vmotion, correct? »

  Rep. : Using Vmotion you will be able to migrate Exchange VM to fly from one host to another host without any downtime.

  "(B) to implement a DAG (direct bed group) on the initial period of the Exchange Server installation. That's what I don't understand? This is a copy of your database to exchange, correct? In a failover on one VMware Server situation, what other/s product are needed for the exchange server virtual roles of tranfer on the server Vsphere running automatically. »

  Rep. : Yes, it is a copy of your Exchange database. You must have the license for VMware HA and Drs new VMware HA is different and DAG is different.

  "C. we are currently on VSphere 4, standard servers, what level do we need upgrade"Advanced"or"Business"in order to be able to have this capability?

  Rep. : From critical vCenter and Standard Edition we carry licenses for VMware HA and Drs goal once again, this will not fix your goal... you need to look for solution as MSCS.

  Hope I've answered your questions...

  Thank you

  Ramesh. Giacalone,

  VCP 3 & 4, MCTS(Hyper-V).

  Please give points, so useful

• Cannot receive emails from Exchange 2010

  I have Small Business Server 2011 Microsoft and Microsoft Exchange 2010.  I'm unable to receive emails.

  When I run the Mail Exchange acceptance test, results are:

  Presentation has no mail: error message: server does not support secure connections

  Should I renew a certificate?  If so, how do I?  I take more than one other company support and have no previous information.

  Thank you!

  Hello

  Your question is beyond the scope of this community.

  I suggest that repost you your Question in Exchange for TechNet Forums.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Exchange/en-us/home?category=ExchangeServer

  Or here:

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Exchange/en-us/home?Forum=exchangesvrgeneral

  SBS forums.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home?Forum=smallbusinessserver

  "Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials online help"

  https://msdn.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/home-client.aspx

  See you soon.

• Problem of Exchange 2010 TLS 1.0

  Hi all

  I have a windows 2008r2 with exchange 2010 with RU11

  TLS 1.1 and 1.2 active

  I installed the Update Rollup 4,6,7,8-v2, 10, 11

  If I disable tls 1.0 mail will not be sent. This patch should be RU9.

  I thought that the UK is cumulative? I made a mistake and

  I have to install ru9? is it possible after ru11?

  regarding

  Patrick

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  Or in the Exchange Server TechNet Forums.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Exchange/en-us/home?category=ExchangeServer

  See you soon.