Comments on: VMware Continues on the SVVP Certification Track

By: VM Junkie

VM Junkie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:34:11 +0000

ESX 3.5 Update 3 now on Microsoft’s SVVP List…

Hot on the heels of the Update 2’s new certified configurations comes Update 3’s inclusion on the MS-approved Virtualization Platform list. Now we’re just waiting on Mike D’s promised ESXi support!
I’m really glad Microsof…

By: jondybik

jondybik — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:12:47 +0000

There is no restriction on SVVP that says you have to create a 64 GB VM. This is just the max supported configuration under SVVP. You can create any sized VM on a sliding scale up to 64 GB with up to 4 vCPUs.

The point then becomes that you can deploy role based application servers like Exchange or SharePoint as scaled up or as scaled out as you need to meet business and technical requiments without deploying additional hardware resources. Application architects get the flexibility they need while infrastructure owners get to reduce hardware costs and operational expenses.

By: Mike DiPetrillo

Mike DiPetrillo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:10:00 +0000

Deploying Exchange as 1 large VM is actually not the good way to go. It's actually better to create smaller mailbox servers. For more info go here: http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/exchange_re....

By: mcr

mcr — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:57:40 +0000

It seems to me that there is something significantly wrong with the clustering architecture of “Exchange Server” or “SQL Server” if it's better to have 1 64G VM than 8 x 8GB VMs.
(the 8, 8G VMs would be much easier to balance/fail-over).

By: Microsoft SVVP program updated | The VMguy

Microsoft SVVP program updated | The VMguy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:04:27 +0000

[...] to Mike D for posting this one . Thanks to MS for not having a RSS feed for me to follow or I would have cought it myself. [...]

By: Updates to VMware ESX and Microsoft’s SVVP Program « Brian’s Power Windows Blog

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:40:57 +0000

[...] News just in from Mike D at VMware… VMware now leads the “most validated SVVP hypervisor” race with 8 new configs that have just been approved: [...]

By: Matt McSpirit

Matt McSpirit — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:41:25 +0000

Nice one Mike. It's good to see that VMware are embracing the SVVP as it provides a much greater peace of mind for those customers who are running the Microsoft technologies on VMware (and other) virtualisation platforms.

I hope the other vendors are following suit and working away to get more configurations certified too!

Time will tell!
Matt