Nice Sh*t-storm

The blog about 'misleading advice' http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/11/09/456851.aspx seems to have generated way more comments than I thought it would. As usual there are the kool-aid drunkards who leap to the defence of Microsoft on every little thing and who seem to have weaved in SAN=BAD, possibly because there is no understanding of the true arguments here.

VMware have responded in a candid and balanced manner: http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/2010/11/virtualizing-exchange-on-vmware.html
As you can see, VMware HA is not VMotion or DRS but many people wrap all of the capabilities into one colloquial term; it's human nature.

I don't know who 'Alagba' is but he makes some pretty cutting remarks about the capabilities of the Hyper-V solution that Microsoft has; i.e. it can't really do VMotion like activities and that might be why it's not supported. Live Migration does in fact exist but it's less mature, significantly so.

Key points from the comments. Microsoft fanatical (can't argue). Microsoft schizophrenic (can't argue) Jim Lucey backpeddaling somewhat. Microsoft spiteful (jannie h) (might be true but well, it's a bit strong.

I'm learning quite a bit from these Exchanges as it helps me in my job counter all of the must-use-DAS that some Microsoft field staff still maintain.

One hopes that Jim's post can be safely buried and forgotten about since it's not credible.