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Up until now it&#8217;s been unsupported (in any case, Exchange Server 2007 requires a 64-bit platform, and that wasn&#8217;t available on a Microsoft virtualisation platform before the advent of Hyper-V) but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/microsoft-releases-hyper-v-to-manufacturing.htm\">Microsoft is running some of its Exchange Servers on Hyper-V<\/a> and, as Andrew &#8220;Dugie&#8221; Dugdell commented a few days back, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.windowsvirtualization.com\/virtualization\/hyper-v-is-here-what-about-exchange\">Exchange Server support for Hyper-V is on its way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a Hyper-V briefing last week, I asked Bryon Surace, a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Windows Server Virtualization group, to clarify the situation with regards to Exchange Server support on Hyper-V and he explained that support for virtualisation is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserversystem\/cer\/allcriteria.mspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s common engineering criteria for 2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserversystem\/cer\/allcriteria.mspx\"><p>&#8220;<strong>Windows Server virtualization Support<\/strong><br \/>\nEach server product must be capable of running within a Virtual Machine (VM) as provided by [Hyper-V] on Windows Server [2008]. Each server product must handle escalation and support running in a VM at the same level as was the product running directly on Windows Server.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the product teams are still testing their products on Hyper-V but, according to Surace, Exchange <em>is<\/em> supported but recommendations are to follow on implementation <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/scottschnoll\/archive\/2008\/06\/15\/exchange-server-2007-and-hyper-v.aspx\">(the Exchange Server product team committed to an announcement within 60 days of Hyper-V&#8217;s RTM including a detailed support statement for Hyper-V, and a TechNet article with best practices)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtualisation is great but it&#8217;s not a &#8220;one size fits all&#8221; solution &#8211; some workloads just don&#8217;t make sense for virtualisation. 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