Posted on June 08, 2010 by Nathan Lasnoski in Exchange, Infrastructure, Lync, Unified Communications, Virtualization
Did you say Communications Server 14 would be supported virtualized? Really? The answer is yes. I was blown away when I heard it. Here are the details…
What’s supported?
- Virtualization of specific Communications Server roles
- SQL, Exchange, and AD virtualization where appropriate
- Hyper-V R2 (not R1) and VMWare
- Client virtualization (except Audio / video) – use IP phone
What’s not supported?
- Branch office / gateway only / mediation server + gateway
- Standard edition servers (already a single box)
- Live Migration of Communications Server VMs
It goes with saying that you need to do appropriate scaling of your virtualized environment. The challenges with oversubscription that impact some companies will impact voice even more, so its very important to do appropriate planning of your virtual resources.
Nathan Lasnoski
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So in order to virtualize Wave 14 you must use Enterprise OCS?
Yes, the standard edition would not be virtualized, as it is already a single server.
Ok, according to this we can even virtualize AV related roles? I have a 5000 user company and to achieve local HA and Site resiliency we need 9 servers, two edges, two directors, two consolidated FEs and one of each at the remote site. Are you equvically stating that all of that can be virtualized in 2010?
Yes, even the AV roles can be virtualized (with the exception of the standard edition deployment). Certainly capacity planning will come into play when determining the appropriate server distribution, quantities of servers, etc. I’d suggest checking out some of the UC presentations from Tech Ed as well: http://www.msteched.com/Tracks/UnifiedCommunications
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