Configuration advice

[Zelandakh]

I would be grateful for any suggestions on whether the following would be a good plan:

700 users, an average mix of light, medium and heavy. Circa 50,000 emails per day with a 10GB delta.

Exchange 2007 CCR 2 node cluster on a pair of Blades each with 2 dual core CPUs, 16GB of RAM connected to a SAN.

HT and CAS rolestogether on virtual machines as NLB pair on the Blades using HyperV. Amount of RAM TBC.

Questions:
Anyone doing CAS/HT on VMs in a production environment?
Anyone hosting those VMs on an MBX?

 

[xmsre]

You can virtualize all the roles. I did a 15,000 seat engagement last year virtualizing all the roles. You only scale the MBX servers up to a point, then you scale out. I was using 2500 users per virtual MBX server. You can do SCC or CCR, but if you use Windows clustering, then don't leverage the HA features of the virtualization platform.

John