Microsoft virtual labs exchange 2007

All planned migration must either result in shutdown and cold boot, or an online migration that makes use of a technology like Hyper-V Live Migration. Hypervisor migration of virtual machines is supported by the hypervisor vendor; therefore, you must ensure that your hypervisor vendor has tested and supports migration of Exchange virtual machines. Microsoft supports Hyper-V Live Migration of these virtual machines. Only management software for example, antivirus software, backup software, or virtual machine management software can be deployed on the physical host machine.

The host machine should be dedicated to running guest virtual machines. Some hypervisors include features for taking snapshots of virtual machines. Virtual machine snapshots capture the state of a virtual machine while it's running. This feature enables you to take multiple snapshots of a virtual machine and then revert the virtual machine to any of the previous states by applying a snapshot to the virtual machine.

However, virtual machine snapshots aren't application aware, and using them can have unintended and unexpected consequences for a server application that maintains state data, such as Exchange.

As a result, making virtual machine snapshots of an Exchange guest virtual machine isn't supported. Many hardware virtualization products allow you to specify the number of virtual processors that should be allocated to each guest virtual machine.

The virtual processors located in the guest virtual machine share a fixed number of physical processor cores in the physical system. Exchange supports a virtual processor-to-physical processor core ratio no greater than , although we recommend a ratio of For example, a dual processor system using quad core processors contains a total of 8 physical processor cores in the host system.

On a system with this configuration, don't allocate more than a total of 16 virtual processors to all guest virtual machines combined. In most cases, the equivalent number of virtual processors required in the host operating system for a system hosting Exchange virtual machines is 2. This value should be used as a baseline for the host operating system virtual processor when calculating the overall ratio of physical cores to virtual processors.

If performance monitoring of the host operating system indicates you're consuming more processor utilization than the equivalent of 2 processors, you should reduce the count of virtual processors assigned to guest virtual machines accordingly and verify that the overall virtual processor-to-physical core ratio is no greater than In this event, you must configure the adapters in the host machine's operating system and present the logical unit numbers LUNs to guest virtual machines as either a virtual disk or a pass-through disk.

Host machines in some hardware virtualization applications may require storage space for an operating system and its components. Additional storage space is also required to support the operating system's paging file, management software, and crash recovery dump files. Some hypervisors maintain files on the host machine that are unique to each guest virtual machine.

For example, in a Hyper-V environment, a temporary memory storage file BIN file is created and maintained for each guest machine. The size of each BIN file is equal to the amount of memory allocated to the guest machine. In addition, other files may also be created and maintained on the host machine for each guest machine. Each Exchange guest machine must be allocated sufficient storage space on the host machine for the fixed disk that contains the guest's operating system, any temporary memory storage files in use, and related virtual machine files that are hosted on the host machine.

In addition, for each Exchange guest machine, you must also allocate sufficient storage for the message queues and sufficient storage for the databases and log files on Mailbox servers.

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No Results Found. Sign in to see your profile. My Profile. Postal Code:. Edit my profile. Sort: Most recent Alphabetically. Search within these products only:. The only cost for you is your internet connection and your time spent in the lab…. You'll get to the next screen which enables you to launch the preparation of that lab. I think that the the deployment process vary depending on the complexity of the lab. The one I launched took about 5 min. During the preparation, you can see the progress bar growing….

The interface is in Adobe Flash…. So after 5 minuts of wait but apparently the wait can be up to 15 min , I ended up with nice remote desktop session, which you must launch first.

Over there I had four VMs on the left hand side of the screen. And on the right hand side you can read the lab scenario the manual , which is handy. On the left hand side you can see those four VMs where you can connect by double clicking each of the VMs icon, and do what you have to do and accomplish in the lab.

The Lab's manual in PDF can be downloaded to your computer and then you can open it on another screen if you want. You can see the workspace on the screenshot below. You can click on the image to see a larger view.

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