Using the Support Policy Wizard

To use the Policy Support Wizard , access the following URL:

http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm

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This Article Describes about Older Wizard


On the homepage, in the top left there is the option Support Policy Wizard, as Figure 1.


Figure 1 - Accessing the Support Policy Wizard

The process is simple, consisting only three steps. At first you must choose your product and version to be used in the virtualized environment. The list contains all Microsoft products and their versions. After choosing from the available options, click Next.


Figure 2 - Product and Version

In step 2 you must set the virtualization solution, the host operating system and the virtual machine operating system.

The last two options provide only Microsoft Systems, but the interesting thing is that this wizard is not for Microsoft Virtualization solutions only, but also for the solutions of the following list

· Cisco WAAS Virtual Blades

· Novell SUSE Linux Ent Server

· Hitachi Virtualization Manager

· Red Hat Enterprise Linux

· Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor

· Riverbed Steelhead Applicance

· Stratus Avance

· VMWare ESX, ESXi e Vsphere

.Citrix XenServer

After choosing the desired options, click Next , as is shown in Figure 3 .


Figure 3 - Virtualization Technology

The next screen displays the result if the environment is supported or not, based on the choices that you have made. Besides the result you can see the related
links to selected products and some observations.

In the example used there is some additional information about Exchange 2010. The Unified Messaging role and use of dynamic virtual disks are not supported for this scenario.


Figure 4 - Result and observations

Being an official result is possible to use them to prove during the planning process the support for any Microsoft product being used in virtual environments.

Leandro Carvalho
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