As users begin to adopt VMware virtualization products more to support production apps, some are looking to move even performance intensive applications, like Microsoft Exchange server, to VMs. Dell engineers have spent time characterizing and testing Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 on VMware.

Exchange Server on VMware Infrastructure 3 Quick Links

Virtualizing Exchange Server 2007 with ESX Server 3	Virtualizing Exchange 2007: The Final Frontier?
VMotion and High Availability with Exchange 2007 on VMware	Exchange Server 2003 Performance on ESX 3
Microsoft Recommendations for Exchange on VMs	VMware Internal Case Study: Deployment of Exchange 2007 on VI3

Microsoft Recommendations for Exchange in VMs - Microsoft's Exchange team has put out guidelines for how to run Exchange in a virtualized environment.

Virtualizing Exchange Server 2007 on ESX 3 - Whitepaper
Examination of performance of Exchange Server 2007 on VMware ESX 3 with 500, 1000, and 2000 user workloads.

VMotion and HA with Exchange 2007 on ESX 3 - Whitepaper
Detailed look at peroformance of Exchange 2007 VMs while using VMotion and High Availability with 500, 1000, and 2000 user workloads.

Virtualizing Exchange 2007: The Final Frontier - Presentation

Examination of advantages and disadvantages of virtualizing Exchange 2007 as well as performance characterization of VM performance, VMotion , HA, and Exchange VMs running with and other types of VMs at the same time. Presented at VMworld 2007.

Exchange Server 2003 Performance on ESX 3 - Whitepaper

Detailed examination of performance of Exchange 2003 VM running on Dell PowerEdge 6850 and VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 including virtual vs physical comparisons.

VMware Internal Case Study : Deployment of Exchange 2007 on VI3 - Whitepaper
A detailed case study of the actual deployment of a fully virtualized Exchange 2007 environment at VMware. Includes detailed topology diagrams and configuration information.