Early in September, Microsoft changed their support policy for several systems including Dynamics AX from only supporting their own virtualization software (Virtual Server and Hyper-V) to other virtualization vendors including the market leader VMWare. According to the News Release dated Sept. 3 2008 on http://www.vmware.com/, their hypervisor VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) passed the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).
This is old news on the Internett highway, but the effect of this is that customers now can get full support both from Microsoft and VMWare for systems running on the validated release of the VMWare ESX 3.5 hypervisor. This can seem like a minor detail, but a lot of businesses have in fact been running most Microsoft software on an unsupported virtualization platform for a long time without any security or guaranteed support. The change to include VMWare as a supported platform, is important information and should indeed be emphasized.
For everyone involved in using and delivering products in the Dynamics product line, I think it’s good news that Microsoft now officially supports several Dynamics products (AX, CRM and NAV) running on this release of VMWare ESX 3.5 and it actually shows that Microsoft has opened up for other well established players in the virtualization market.
Links
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006/
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/svvp.html
http://windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm
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