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Originally Posted by jeffro01
I am looking for opinions and ideas on putting BES in a virtual environment. I am under the school of thought that the SQL database should not be virtualized but the BES itself can be???? Or am i misunderstanding this?
Also which do you prefer/recommend, VMWare or MS Virtual Server? What are the pros/cons of either??
Jeff
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There is nothing wrong with virtualizing SQL. It's all a matter of size and business of the databases vs how much hardware you can throw at it. I run several SQL 2000 and 2005 servers under ESX 3.5 with no problems.
RIM will only support BES virtualized under VMWare ESX 3.x. It can work wit MSVS, but won't be supported. I'd use MS in a lab but never in prod.