Hi All,
I am working on a deployment project Exchange 2013, We have planned to deploy exchange 2013 on VMware platform. Could some one share your experience Exchange 2013 with VMware . I have already gone trough the VMware recommendations but i am looking for some one with practical experience that would be really help full for me to accomplish this task successfully.
First Question : Can we use thin provisioning for Database and logs?
Second Question : what type of disk we need to use for DB & Logs (RDM or VMFS)? I am beginner to vmware sorry if i have asked any wrong question here :-)
Third Question : How to Size the processor for exchange 2013 with MSCalc? I have followed the below article for MScalc still have some doubts on Processor calculation. :-)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/11/09/3408737.aspx
Here is the server details, could some one help me with the Processor part, I appreciate your response.
Phycial 4 sockets, 32 cores in total, 256 GB of RAM
SPECint®_rate2006 = 1130
Regards, Balgates