VMWare

Hi!

I am running a full Windows Environment Platform. However, due to the latest
business needs, I will need to deploy Virtual Environment. I was wandering,
if I werre to run Windows 2003 Server on VMWare, what will the support stand
for Microsoft? Will I still be entitled for support? Thanks.

Regards,
Alexandar Ang

Here's the VMWare support policy:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q273508 Basically,
you're Server is fully supported, however there is an extra layer of
inconvenience in that you'll need to demonstrate that your issue can be
reproduced outside of the virtualized environment as Microsoft does not
warrant nor test its' products to run within non-Microsoft virtualized
environments. In practice, this can be a real pain, so a good alternative
is to run your Server in a Microsoft-supported virtualized environment:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...r/default.mspx
This has the added benefit of being much less expensive than the equivalent
VMWare product.

-Bryce
http://blogs.msdn.com/eec/

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"Alexadar" <> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I am running a full Windows Environment Platform. However, due to the
> latest
> business needs, I will need to deploy Virtual Environment. I was
> wandering,
> if I werre to run Windows 2003 Server on VMWare, what will the support
> stand
> for Microsoft? Will I still be entitled for support? Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Alexandar Ang