Unified Messaging for Microsoft Exchange Can Be Virtualized

When Exchange 2010 came out Microsoft stated that all the roles could be virtualized except for Unified Communications.  As Exchange 2010 has been updated and evolved Microsoft now says that the Unified Messaging role can now be virtualized with Hyper-V or other approved third party virtualization platforms (aka VMware).

https://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/virtualize-unified-messaging-microsoft-exchange-171670?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_entwindows_2011-09-07