Tim Harper, Sr System Analyst at the Kadlec Medical Center has written a great document about P2V’ing Windows with Exchange server running on old physical hardware. He published it on viops.This document explains in detail how to successfully P2V Exchange 2003. The physical hosts originally hosting Exchange were experiencing hardware failures causing the servers to spontaneously reboot several times a week. These servers were over 5 years old and without warranties. Because of the size of the mailbox stores, we were also out of hard drive space. With an email archiving solution about to be implemented, immediately followed by an Exchange 2007 upgrade, our current Exchange system needed to be stable and survive until after the eVault project was complete. Our solution: Virtualize!
