Exchange and 2 DCs environment

I would like to know the best way to set up 2 environments for redundancy and for the purposes of recovery after a disaster. I use 2 new Dell Power Edge 2950 servers. The environment will consist of 2 DC 2003 server and 1 exchange 2003, I want to create two domain controllers and exchange like VMs and have 3 virtual servers on a Dell and even the other Dell for backup. Can I stick with the free ESXi hypervisor and then buy the other vmware apps that will be needed for this? And if yes what vmware Apps would I need?  Thank you for your help in advance.

Post edited by: vite@1

The best way is to check this table and determine the types of features that you need and it appropriate license.  So you have 2 hosts PE2950 you will join them together as a cluster or is going to be a stand-alone host?  ESXi would be nice in this case, but you must know how to manage it through vMA or RCLI and can use other script tools to automate your tasks.  There are a lot of tools, you can use especially GhettoVCB is ideal for backup of VMS ESXi.  You can see all the scripts here http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9852

You can read the guide of best practices for virtualization of Exchange & DCs before implementation and do not P2V any DC but create new and promote the domain controller which is a lot better and cleaner.  You can P2V make exchange servers you just services are stopped before P2V.  You may need to modify the Exchange 2003 server to performance that otherwise Exchange 2007 has much better performance due to the new memory architecture and x 64 bit and works very well with vSphere 4.0

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Stefan Nguyen

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