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Is MS Dynamics SL not supported in a VMware environment?

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I could not find any information on MS showing that this product is supported in a VMWare environment.  Only on Hyper-V.  We have been heavily invested in VMWare for about 5 years now and need to leverage our current infrastructure.

Also, for a user base of about 20 users, are SATA drives supported or only SCSI drives recommended?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Mike Lewis

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    pbrattin 1,850 on at
    Re: Is MS Dynamics SL not supported in a VMware environment?

    Yes, SL runs in the VM environment. Many of the largest SL shops, including where I work, are on VMWare.  I don't know about the official stance of support on VMWare but I do know that SL tech support will answer support questions about SL running in a VMWare enviroment.

    The SL system does not care what type of drives are used. It's just the faster the better.

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    Re: Is MS Dynamics SL not supported in a VMware environment?

    We have been running 6.5 with SQL 2005 x64 on vmware for about two years without issue.  We have had 2011 and SQL 2008 R2 on vmware for a few months, going live in oct, without issue.

    We have vmware running on a SATA SAN and the performance is good.  We have around 25 users...

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    mlewis 110 on at
    Re: Is MS Dynamics SL not supported in a VMware environment?

    We have setup a Win2k8 R2 with SQL 2k8 64bit and will be installing Dynamics 2011 within the next month.  I did find that MS will support this configuration in conjuction with VMware should any issues pop up.  So far we haven't had any issues.

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    Chris Munsell 25 on at
    Re: Is MS Dynamics SL not supported in a VMware environment?

    We have been running Dynamics SL 7.0 SP1 with Server 2008 SP2 and SQL Server 2005 SP2 (64-bit OS and SQL) in a VMWare environment for 8 months without issue.

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    Hitesh Pandya 10 on at
    Re: Is MS Dynamics SL not supported in a VMware environment?

    Mike,

    Did you finally deploy on VMWare ?

    We too are using a similar environment - ESX servers and VMView.

    Thanks

    Hitesh

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