Upgrade from an exchange 2000 enterprise server to two excha

Birte · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Hi NG,

I want to upgrade my exchange 2000 enterprise server to version 2003.
Simultaneously I will implement an archive solution to decrease the
size of the databases to a volume of 130 GB.
This makes it possible to upgrade to two enterprise servers with
standard exchange 2003.

The new exchange 2003 servers should run on vmware base. We have about
1300 mailboxes and per server about 65 GB database store, devided into
4 storage groups. Emailtraffic per day is about 1 GB.

I do not want to implement a cluster. I want to devide the storage
groups onto both new servers.
So I can half the risk comming up with the implementation of patches.

Does anybody have experiences with exchange 2003 on vmware 3? Are there
performance issues? Are there supporting issues (essential microsoft
support)?

Thanks in advance,
Birte

Archived from group: microsoft>public>exchange2000>setup>installation

Leif Pedersen [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 193

Hi,

Microsoft do not support exchange 2003 server running on vmware -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320220

It works but unsupported.

Leif

"Birte" wrote in message @k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi NG,
>
> I want to upgrade my exchange 2000 enterprise server to version 2003.
> Simultaneously I will implement an archive solution to decrease the
> size of the databases to a volume of 130 GB.
> This makes it possible to upgrade to two enterprise servers with
> standard exchange 2003.
>
> The new exchange 2003 servers should run on vmware base. We have about
> 1300 mailboxes and per server about 65 GB database store, devided into
> 4 storage groups. Emailtraffic per day is about 1 GB.
>
> I do not want to implement a cluster. I want to devide the storage
> groups onto both new servers.
> So I can half the risk comming up with the implementation of patches.
>
> Does anybody have experiences with exchange 2003 on vmware 3? Are there
> performance issues? Are there supporting issues (essential microsoft
> support)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Birte
>

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