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I saw couple of questions about Exchange 64 bit version and hardware compatibility issues in Tech2guys forum, that’s why I though to write this article. Here I attached a document I have done some time back there you can find more information about Exchange 64-bit version with the reference URL’s.
URL for article: http://tech2guys.com/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=770
Don’t miss understand I am going to promote any hardware vendor, I just wanted to share what ever knowledge I gathered in last few months.
Microsoft recommends for anybody who is looking for new Exchange 2003 deployment purchase 64-bit hardware because you don’t have invest again for hardware to deploy Exchange 2007.
Exchange 2003 cannot be install on top of Windows 64-bit because of that Windows 32-bit has to deploy on top of 64-bit hardware which you purchase.
Recently I deployed three Exchange & Windows 2003 32-bit clusters on top of 64-bit hardware from three different hardware vendors that is HP, SUN Microsystems and IBM. Actually I haven’t face a single issue because of 64-bit hardware, backward compatibility works well there. I can ensure 64-bit HW works well for Exchange 2003 it is worthwhile to invest for 64-bit.
Please let us know Tech2guys members who really interested about these technologies I may able to arrange site visit for few people (because of practical difficulties I can’t take all members for a site visit) to get real experience.
We can have session also about clustering, Exchange and 64-bit technology; let us know about your interest.
Will make sure Tech2guys is productive and successful forum which help to develop career of SL IT professionals. |