Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

Press has never had the tendency to be realistic and pragmatic. It is either frothing over the excitement around it (Sys-Con guys are one of them, No offense to Jeremy) OR going down the negative spiral game. Virtualization has benefits that are desperately waiting to be reaped. Be it VMware with its great technology where enterprises should take up the lead and go for it or other alternatives such as Microsoft, Linux. Speculation and fear almost killed the US economy and the lack of adoption of virtualization and not going forward with the technology refresh and using data center virtualization technologies from vendors such as VMware, Microsoft etc will mean a slow and painful death to firms who are unable to get out of the continuously consolidating market. So my verdict is pretty simple (and it is coming out of the wisdom from all those clients who hold and manage multi-billion dollar assets, as if it matters to state that anyways): Whether you consolidate, get acquired or even per...

Rackspace Hosting's business-class email specialist division, has over 450 resellers, who will have the ability to offer Hosted Exchange 2007 now. Adam Williams, Manager of reseller sales, Mailtrust noted, ''Mailtrust has more than 450 resellers offering Mailtrust's superior messaging services to end customers. Theses resellers are a vital aspect of our business model, accounting for more than 545,000 Noteworthy mailboxes on 113,000 domains. In return, our resellers benefit from our 100 percent uptime guarantees and industry-leading support, as well as a customizable business email solution to sell to their customers, which can save them heartache and money.'' Previously, resellers could only offer Managed Exchange 2003 or Noteworthy, Mailtrust's premier web-based business-class email platform. The ability to offer Hosted Exchange 2007 is due in large part to the newly redesigned Control Panel for Mailtrust users. Mailtrust's Control Panel is an easy...

Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2007 in production on hardware virtualization software only when all the following conditions are true: The hardware virtualization software is Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, or any third-party hypervisor that has been validated under the Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program . The Exchange Server guest virtual machine: Is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later. Is deployed on the Windows Server 2008 operating system. Does not have the Unified Messaging server role installed. All Exchange 2007 server roles, except for the Unified Messaging role, are supported in a virtualization environment. The storage used by the Exchange Server guest machine can be virtual storage of a fixed size (for example, fixed virtual hard drives (VHDs) in a Hyper-V environment), SCSI pass-through storage, or Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage. Pass-t...

This is an interesting multi-part series of setting up exchange on VMware. If you have read my previous article [here] about some of the initial thoughts that I have had about the migration, you will have seen that I plan to use a method called “Bunny Hopping” – essentially as I have financial constraints on this migration (e.g I have to use my existing hardware) I have purchased a server which I intend to add into my Exchange organization and then move the mailboxes from one cluster onto it – then re blow the old clusters with Windows 2003 x64 and Exchange 2007 then move the mailboxes back – then repeat the process for the other clusters (long winded I know but the Organisation is not prepared to replace what was £70,000 of new hardware 24 months ago and I can kind of see the reasoning). Excellent multi-part series! Why I like it? Its detailed It has tips and advices It has print screens here and there Strongly advised to check this out. Part 1 and Part2 .