Best Practices

Exchange 2016: VMware Best Practices

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VMware has published a document on best practices for Exchange 2016 on VMware vSphere: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmware-microsoft-exchange-server-2016-on-vsphere-best-practices-guide.pdf Most Exchange servers will probably be installed as VMs, so I think the document is well worth reading. I find the part about Exchange 2016 on all-flash storage quite interesting, but you can read that for yourself... HP has also ... Read more

Exchange 2016: Optimization on VMware ESXi 5.5 / 6.0

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Many people will now be running Exchange Server as virtual machines. There are a few things to consider so that Exchange 2016 also delivers optimum performance in a VM. I would like to briefly present the most important ones here: Exchange 2016 on VMware ESXi 5.5 vCPUs: The rule for virtual CPUs is: as much as necessary, as little as possible. This is where ... Read more