Is Exchange 2007 a Good Candidate for Hyper-V?

Is it a good idea to virtualize a mission-critical application like e-mail? The answer is somewhat complicated. Exchange Client Access Servers can be done; as can Hub Transport Servers. But Exchange 2007 playing a mailbox role may not be such a great idea.

I'll let Daniel Kenyon-Smith explain.

Some applications can have major advantages from increased utilization of hardware, simplified and flexible deployment. A virtualized technology is not necessarily suited to every server workload or application, in fact some are a poor fit and hamper the business benefit if virtualized.  Mission critical applications are often poor candidates for virtualization, the cost/efficiency can be outweighed by the risks.

Daniel goes to explain how Hyper-V should be configured if you're going to be virtualizing Exchange 2007 SP 1.