VMware Exchange Building Blocks
One of the most daunting tasks for any Exchange/systems administrator is sizing Exchange for performance and capacity. They will oversize their environments to ensure that their current demand and capacity needs are met with some percentage of headroom built-in.
One of major goals in the creation of the VMware Exchange building blocks was to simplify the sizing of Exchange servers. We took the Microsoft best practices, created modular virtual machines, and performed internal testing to ensure they would perform as Microsoft said they would.
The best practices guidelines come from the Microsoft TechNet document “Planning Your Server and Storage Architecture.” After our initial internal testing, we set out to validate ...
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