Virtualization of Exchange 2003

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• Virtualize Exchange 2003

  Hi guys

  Will be to virtualize our Exchange servers then p2v is a good idea or creating new servers and then to move the mailboxes? database? and what about databases, whether they're on RDM?

  any other consideration during the Exchange 2003 virtualsing?

  Thank you

  Concerning

  Rucky

  Although I do not recommend a P2V for exchange, you can consult this

  http://VIOPS.VMware.com/home/docs/doc-1181

  If you are looking for information about Exchange 2007, study it:

  http://VIOPS.VMware.com/home/docs/doc-1455

  hope that it points you in the right direction

  concerning

  Jose Ruelas

• Exchange 2003 / 2010 on vshpere foundation 4.1

  We are a small organization with 60 mailboxes on a physical server to Exchange 2003.  My VMWare environment consists of 710 2-Dell servers with 32 GB of ram and vmfs volume unique raid 10 on each server.  There is no SAN and this seems to serve us well, even if a San would make things like Vmotion and HA as possible, that's what we have at the moment.

  Ideally I would like to move the exchange Server 2003 on a VM host and continue to use this platform for another year or two, but there seems to be problems of performance that are best addressed in the 2010 version.

  Would it not possible to run Exchange 2003 on one of my servers host with the VMFS volume shared using storage for databases and log files?   What I do need to provide some physical drives dedicated for exchange databases, or is there any recommended configuration: for the virtual drives for a small exchange on VMWare Server?

  Jim

  From a disk I / IO perspective if you have only 60 users, I don't think that you will have problems even if you use Outlook in Mode online (as opposed to the Cached Mode).  In addition, there are a few things you should think about to / consider:

  (1) Exchange 2003 is not supported in a machine virtual on a hypervisor/platform. You can't get support from Microsoft if you are running Exchange 2003 in a VM on vSphere, Hyper-V, whatever it is.  I've had clients essentially turned almost immediately without even best effort support for Microsoft.  I'm not sure of the importance of technical support Microsoft for you, but for many of my clients, the risk is not worth...  Customers choose to migrate to Exchange 2010 (or 2007 for years before) that supports virtualization complete.

  Microsoft has created the program (SVVP) Validation of virtualization server to validate their applications running on virtual machines on multiple platforms.  I would check that out to see exactly what is and is not supported all the way back to Exchange 5.5 If you can believe it.

  http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/SVVP.aspx?svvppage=svvpwizard.htm

  (2) Exchange 2010 offers big improvements over Exchange 2003 in more than a reduction of inputs and outputs.  There are so many new features of the product that it is useful to consider migrating directly to Exchange 2010.

  If you really want to virtualize it, I would follow advice from design even for physical Exchange 2003 servers.  You don't need the physical disks dedicated to the database/log, but you may want dedicated virtual disks for easy management.  In addition, you can just follow normal recommended or even existing P2V your Exchange Server.

  So to sum up - Yes you can virtualize Exchange 2003 and as small as your environment, it should run perfectly, but it is not supported by Microsoft.  I would consider an upgrade to Exchange 2010 as preferred approach if possible.

  Matt

  http://www.thelowercasew.com

• Equipo physical Exchange 2003 Virtualizacion

  People:

  Hace unos dias realice the virtualizacion of a server of a Exchange 2003 a TIB con (Acronis) starting from UN archivo VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. El proceso is realizó sin problemas. Luego montar el equipo, configurar el red useful again e instalar los VM aditions, este inicio con errores Comunicación con los DCs.

  Is el proceso virtualizacion are material to UN cambio como of (if no me equivoco) tender that perform Exchange/disasterrecovery reinstalacion una y luego el ultimo restore respaldo exchanging?

  Dato: has los equipos conectaron a este virtualizado Exchange, luego apagar el mismo e iniciar el equipo Exchange physical, what renombrar el archivo OST hubo para los Outlook pudieran volver a connect.

  Saludos.

  Hola

  También he visto otro "low performance" hilo in Iberia, y siempre lo mismo, to virtualiza muchos procesadores (o mas 2-4) a solo uno, y eso dedicate o no decreased the Máquina una barbaridad.

  Lo del raid, yo siempre UN raid 10 tr aconsejo comment are possible, if no, al menos raid United Nations, 1.

  Te Aa±ado mi en el otro hilo provision:

  
  Re: Maquina recien virtualizada tarda mucho en arrancar
  12. 20-ago-2010 14:33 en respuesta a: akumal2
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  A vueltas con los procesadores....
  
  Lo primero, ¿que tasa de carga tiene el procesador inicial?, si la máquina va mal con un Xeon PIII@900, el que se ejecute en un core de un X5500 no va a resolver gran cosa si es por tema de rendimiento (obiamente va mejor, pero no el doble de mejor)
  
  Si la máquina original (pongamos un DGaviion con 2 Xeon PII 300 y 256 de ram con NT Enterprise) tiene 2 procesadores, echando cuentas deberian tener 300+300 y por lo que he leido hasta aqui, un core de cualquier procesador actual debaría valer.
  La realidad es que si esa máquina (me da igual el procesador, el sistema operativo y la ram que tenga) se cambia a menor en alguno de los componentes físicos, lo lógico es que pierda rendimiento, aunque corra en un hp blade 680 G7 (4 hexacores).
  
  En principio y salvo muy raras excepciones yo siempre virtualizo 1 a 1. (en las excepciones entran los procesadores HT y solo respeto los cores en la serie P4-478) con lo que pongamos el primero de los procesadores, Xeon de PIII a 900, que en un 2003 representa 4 cores en 2 pastillas. En este caso le virtualizo a 2 vcpu y pruebo su rendimiento. En los casos en los que son xeon PIV a 2000 por ejemplo (sin HT) en 2 pastillas, se quedaría igual, con 2 vcpu.
  
  Al igual que en un ESX, el tema de las cpu en la VM es delicado porque pueden tener aplicaciones y servicios multihilo a los que el KB de microsoft no les afecta para nada (oracle es un buen ejemplo, cristal reports, GIS, y alguna mas). Y ademas, las herramientas de inventario como puede ser el capcity (de vmware o de m$) o perfmon suelen registrar poco o nada de esto ya que los servicios arrancan incluso antes que el monitorizador o el servicio wim (y no digamos que caiga una consulta en ese momento) por lo que puedes tener en apariencia una máquina física muy sobredimensionada, que al reducirla durante su virtualización caiga por su propio peso.
  
  Y dicho esto, recojo y me voy de vacaciones :)
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• Best practices for Exchange 2003 with VMWare ESXi 3.5 and iSCSI SAN

  Hello guys,.

  Here's the Q? We have 1 physical Exchange 2003, the HOST of 4 and 1 iSCSI SAN with LUN 3, 1 for data, 1 for VMWare and 1 for SQL, if we're going to virtualize it, I don't know where to put data Exchage and newspapers. I do not think that that is a good practice to put together the data but I do not have another SAN. So, what can I do?

  Thank you.

  We have 813 mailbox.

  I agree with cainics, start an average size and go from there.  I know it's a production mail server and you can not exactly 'play' with the settings because this requires time, but if you do the VM too big, you would have nothing left for other virtual machines.

  I would go 2 vCPU and at least 4 GB of RAM, maybe 8GB.  There must be parameters for the Exchange mailbox 813 and X users # to implement your environments in order to get an idea of the amount of RAM that will be... 4GB seems minimal to me, but 8 GB would probably be better like that.

• ESX 3i for Exchange 2003

  Hello people,

  Can I use ESX 3i to consolidate the two Exchange server 2003 for redundancy? 1 box of 2 virtual Exchange. We have about 500 users.

  Thank you.

  Before you Virtualize your Exchange boxes, I would consider using Exchange 2007 because that provides more users and performance through larger cache sizes.  There is a best practice to do this, use vmware for exchange 2007 pleas google online that he will quickly reveal.

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Thank you!!!

  Kind regards

  Stefan Nguyen

  VMware vExpert 2009

  iGeek Systems Inc.

  VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

• Migration of interns of exchange 2003 to Microsoft Cloud Exchange

  Hello

  I need help migrate my internal data from Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Cloud. It's my first time

  the display, if more information is needed please let me know. I bought Office 365 with Exchange for my client.

  Server - SBS2003

  Customers - Office 2007 and 2010

  Thank you

  Ty

  Hello

  Your Question is beyond the scope of this community.

  I suggest that repost you your question in the Forums of SBS.

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

  And here:

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

  See you soon.

• Exchange 2003 Migration to Office365 with SSO

  Hi all

  Merry Christmas to start!

  I work for a company that run Exchange 2003. We plan to do a migration to Office365 and I am researching on the best solution.

  I am aware that there are three main options available, hybrid/intermediary/putting in service.

  My instincts suggest that the best option would be to complete the migration using the staging process, but I think that if I take this route I can't implement single sign on? This is the case...

  If so, is this means to ensure single sign-on can be used, then I can only implement a hybrid solution?

  Hello

  And a Merry Christmas to you, too.

  Your Question is beyond the scope of this community.

  Please repost your Question in Exchange for TechNet Forums.

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

  See you soon.

• SBS 2003 migrating exchange 2003 to exchange 2010

  Hello

  It is possible o migrate from exchange 2003 on SBS 2003 to new windows server 2012 STD with exchange 2010, but does not move the FSMO rules to windows 2012? I can't downgrade SBS 2003 because I have an application that cannot be migrated from Small Business SERVER 2003.

  Best regards

  Marcio Moreira

  Try asking in Exchange Server Forums:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Exchange/en-us/home?category=exchangeserve

• How can I restore and old information store (Exchange 2003) to my Exchange Server existing (Exchange 2010)

  Nice day

  3 months ago I installed Exchange Server 2010, now I need to recover a mailbox from a backup. The backup was performed while he was still Exchange 2003. I want to know is you can restore an old Exchange 2003 database in the Exchange 2010 recovery store, and if so what is the way forward. PS I use symantec backup exec 2010 R3 as backup software.

  If it is not possible, is there any other way to retrieve mailbox information

  Any help will be much appreciated.

  Hello Wh@pd@p,

  I suggest posting your question on our forums TechNet for Microsoft Exchange Server, located here again:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/ExchangeServer

• How to switch my domain server 2003 & exchange 2003 Server

  I have Windows 2003 Server domain with exchange 2003 server running on the same machine, I want to improve my server domain to Windows server 2008, both my exchange to Exchange Server 2007 server, tell me the procedure, if I upgrade my server exchange server or domain first. What are the steps to do this.

  Support is located in the Windows Server Forums:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsServer/

  Support is found in the Exchange Server forums:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/ExchangeServer/

• Exchange 2003 with clusters

  Hello

  I'm new with Exchange 2003 cluster environment in our Organization, we have a network that will make all activity the network down, then after 12 to 14 hours. Network will rise

  Our Exchange is configured in the cluster with call tool Symantec Enterprise vault archiving environment, we also have the ANTI-SPAM called Sonic Wall filter

  I just wanted to know what kind of care I have to take before and after the network outage?

  Your suggestion of all will be of great help for me

  Kind regards

  Patricia

  Hello SwapnilJain27,

  It would be better to post in the forum of Exchange Server.

  You can find the category that fits your question below:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/ExchangeServer

  Thank you!

• Exchange 2003 Server kept receiving unknown Email sending out through SMTP and the paper jam in the queue folder

  Hello Sir,

  I have a problem with one of my SBS Exchange 2003 servers.

  At first, I was getting a lot of 3008 errors for a non-delivery report with a status code of 5.0.0 was generated for recipient rfc822; address email is removed from the privacy * all these repeated error messages from the event log, SMTP and Exchange Routing service...

  I looked around and discovered more than 10000 .eml in my x:\program files\exchsrv\mailroot\queue folder.  At first, I thought that my server or one of my workstations was compromised, but all workstations have local antiviral software (symantec endpoint protection), my server software also has antiviral and I have a mail server antivirus (symantec endpoint protection).  I scanned all of the computers on the network and even tried almost all of them closing to see if new entries have been created in the queue.

  Unfortunately, more than entries kept by appearing so I kept looking.  By opening one of the .eml, I discovered my own responsibility that I attach to outgoing emails if I have my server acted as a mail relay.  I checked for this and I have been clean.  I kept searching in the .eml and discovered different origins IPs of the Internet.  Am I right to assume that my mail server is BOMBED or attacked with emails with false return addresses and my mail server sends return NDR for spammers/compromised machines on the net?  I tried to stop the exchange services and tried to rename the vsi file 1 to something else as one of the suggested MSKB, but the file was protected.  How can I stop this, it's slowing down my mail server and fill out my HD.  I can't block the IP to shippers because it comes from everywhere.  Help!  There are about 2 to 5 new .eml created every minute!

  TKS and best regards,

  LT

  Hi Lennet,

  Your question is more complex than what is generally answered in the Microsoft Answers forums. It is better suited for the IT Pro TechNet public. Please post your question in the forum TechNet for assistance:

  Microsoft Exchange Server

  Hope the helps of information.

• Exchange 2003 migration to Exchange 2010

  Dear Sir/Madam

  I have a partner who has a parent and a child domain, it has exchange 2003 is installed in the child domain.

  He wonders if he can install exchange 2010 in the partner area & migrate all the exchange 2003 from the child domain in the newly installed exchange 2010 in the area of the partner.

  Please repost your request in one of the most appropriate Microsoft Exchange Forums.  Thank you!

• What is the tone server scenario in exchange 2003 server

  What is your server Dáil in exchange 2003

  Hello

  The question you have posted is related to Exchange Server 2003 and would be better suited to the TechNet community. Please visit the link below to find a community that will provide the best support.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/exchangesvravailabilityandisasterrecovery/threads

  Amrita M

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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