Converting physical Exchange DAG servers with mailboxes servers to VM on ESXI hosts

[ziasyed]

My new project is converting our physical Exchange DAG servers with mailboxes servers to VM on ESXI hosts. am looking for some Best Practices to watch out for. I will be using the VMware Converter Standalone to perform the conversion. but what is the best way, step-by-step, to do this? Should I use the "Synchronize" function in the converter? Do I need to convert each server with stopping services Or can I simply convert them online

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

Can you advise about the storage of each mailbox exchange server (Database location) ?

External storage or locally with the same physical box ?

[ziasyed]

Hi,

Good morning,

The storage of each mailbox is 120GB, We have two exchange servers and two Mailbox servers.

The storage(Database) is mounted Externally on SAN.

[MikeStoica]

Check this also https://www.petri.com/how-to-virtualize-microsoft-exchange-server