{"id":856,"date":"2007-07-22T19:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/microsofts-support-policy-for-software-running-in-a-non-microsoft-vm.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-22T23:41:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T22:41:52","slug":"microsofts-support-policy-for-software-running-in-a-non-microsoft-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/microsofts-support-policy-for-software-running-in-a-non-microsoft-vm.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s support policy for software running in a non-Microsoft VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m troubleshooting some problems with my Exchange server at the moment and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/exchange-server-best-practices.htm\">ExBPA<\/a> led me to a knowledge base article about running Exchange Server in a virtualised environment.  Whilst reading that, I can across <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/897615\/\">Microsoft knowledge base article 897615<\/a>, which discusses the support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualisation software.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll paraphrase it as &#8220;If you have Premier support and you use our virtualisation software, we&#8217;ll try and work out what the issue is (we use Virtual Server 2005 R2 to do that anyway).  If you don&#8217;t have Premier support, then you should, and you need to proove that it&#8217;s nothing to do with virtualisation (i.e. can you replicate the issue on physical hardware).  If you have a Premier agreement but you use another vendor&#8217;s virtualisation software then we&#8217;ll try our best, but you&#8217;ll probably have to proove the problem is not caused by the virtualisation software&#8221;.  The crux of this is the statement that:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/897615\/\"><p>&#8220;Microsoft does not test or support Microsoft software running in conjunction with non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This might be worth considering whilst selecting which (if any) virtualisation platform is right for an organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m troubleshooting some problems with my Exchange server at the moment and the ExBPA led me to a knowledge base article about running Exchange Server in a virtualised environment. Whilst reading that, I can across Microsoft knowledge base article 897615, which discusses the support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualisation software. 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