How to virtualize Exchange 2007

Well, I’m going through my p2v exercise with my current employer and whilst I have p2v’d many servers I had not converted an exchange server before. Our exchange server is a single windows 2003 R2 x64 box with all the exchange roles installed on it, its not a complicated setup but for us it doesn’t need to be. So googling around I found quite a few horror stories of failed p2v attempts. So with a Read More…

vSphere5 Storage Profiles

Storage profiles in vSphere5 allow you to organise you storage within vSphere based upon its capabilities. vSphere includes some specific API’s that can detect a storage devices specific capabilities however not many storage devices support this function at the moment.
However you can also create user defined storage profiles which allow you to assign capabilities to datastores and then create Read More…