Exchange 2010 on a Hyper-V guest machine
If you want to deploy Exchange Server 2010 on a Hyper-V guest machine then make sure your environment meets the following conditions:
Requirements for Exchange guest machine:
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- It is deployed on Windows Server 2008/SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 OS.
- Doesn’t have the Unified Messaging server role installed. UM server role is not supported as a virtual box because of the real-time response required by voice communications.
- Using fixed virtual hard disks (VHDs) and it should be less than 2,040 GB. Virtual disks that dynamically expand or differential virtual disks aren’t supported by Exchange.
- The host machine must be dedicated only to run guest machines. It is not supported to have AD, Exchange, SQL or SAP on the host server.
- Database Availability Groups (DAG) are supported in a virtualization environment if the host machine is not clustered, Microsoft doesn’t support combining Exchange high availability solutions (DAGs) with hypervisor-based clustering.
- Taking virtual machine snapshots of an Exchange guest virtual machine isn’t supported. This is because 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.
- The VHD that will host the guest OS has a minimum requirement of 15 GB plus the size of the virtual memory that’s allocated to the Exchange guest machine. For example if you allocated 32 GB to Exchange then the minimum supported VHD size for the OS is 47 GB (15+32), fixed size VHD.
- Storage used by Exchange should be hosted in disk spindles that are separate from the storage that’s hosting the guest virtual machine’s operating system.
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for more information about this, see Exchange 2010 System Requirements.