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MICROSOFT® EXCHANGE 2010 ON VBLOCK SYSTEMS
Simplify Microsoft Exchange migrations, while
providing cloud-like scalability at a lower cost.
Millions of organizations around the world are upgrading to Microsoft Exchange
Server 2010 to leverage its new functionality and Microsoft support for virtual
environments. These migrations are an opportunity to replace older infrastructure
which is difficult to manage and expensive to support. IT organizations are looking
to virtualization to achieve:
• Greater efficiency through centralized administration of the Exchange environment
• Agility to more easily balance workloads and scale server and storage resources in
response to changing user requirements
• Significant cost benefits from higher server utilization and less physical
data center space.
• Redesign of data protection solutions to improve business continuity
Vblock™ Systems from VCE provide an optimized information technology system
that ensures secure and predictable performance through pre-engineered, modular
infrastructure for unified communications. VCE integrates industry-leading Cisco,
EMC, and VMware technology, performing an in-factory physical and logical build
to optimize the virtualized container of compute, network, and storage for the
Exchange environment. Strict design control enables Vblock systems to meet specific
performance and availability levels so that IT can easily meet business requirements
for mailbox size, availability, and response time. VCE validates and supports a range
of data protection solutions that shorten backup windows, reduce network traffic,
and improve business continuity.
• INCREASE mailbox size
and security
• IMPROVE reliability
• SIMPLIFY management of
unified communications
solutions
www.vce.com THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
Why Vblock Systems are Ideal for Microsoft ExchangeOrganizations that integrate their IT
infrastructure in-house will spend weeks
or even months in test and development
environments to ensure that a platform
is robust enough to support Exchange
2010 deployments. Each upgrade to
the infrastructure will have to be tested
to ensure interoperability before it can
be rolled into production. By contrast,
companies who deploy Exchange
on Vblock Systems mitigate risk and
operational impact through in-factory
integration combined with a seamless
support experience that encompasses
all aspects of the integrated system.
As new component technology is
introduced, VCE dramatically simplifies
the management of the virtualized
environment by integrating and testing
patches to ensure application stability
throughout the life of the system.
The 2011 Frost & Sullivan paper,
“Meeting the Future with a Converged
Infrastructure: Delivering Applications
for the 21st Century” addresses the
complexities of managing Exchange
2010 and explains the total economic
impact of converged infrastructure
deployments. Vblock Systems require
fewer servers, fewer network switches,
less data center space, and much lower
power and cooling costs as compared
to traditional data center architectures.
Virtualizing multiple Microsoft enterprise
applications such as Exchange, and
SharePoint, and/or SQL Server further
reduces operational costs and frees IT
resources for more strategic tasks.
Choosing the Right Vblock System for Your Microsoft Exchange Deployment VCE’s unique approach to intelligent
automation provides dynamic awareness
of all system resources, correlates events
and eliminates the need for traditional
manually-intensive integration of
system resources. Factors influencing
which Vblock System model to select
include number of users, mailbox
sizes, number of copies to maintain
high availability, and future growth
expectations. The modular nature of
Vblock Systems means that different
solution components (such as physical
and virtual servers and storage
resources) can easily scale as needed
to accommodate demand.
• Vblock™ Series 300 platform is an
agile and efficient data center-class
system that features modular, scalable
performance. It has a high-density,
compact fabric switch; integrated
fabric-based blade servers; and
best-in-class unified storage.
Simplified provisioning allows IT
professionals to marshal resources
quickly and efficiently.
• Vblock™ Series 700 platform
is an enterprise-class, mission-
critical system for the world’s most
demanding workloads and service
levels. It features the best director-
class fabric switch, most advanced
fabric-based blade server, and most
trusted storage platform.
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To ensure greater resiliency and quickly
reestablish full system functionality
in the event of a disaster, additional
offerings are recommended and have
been validated with Vblock Systems.
To address the backup bottleneck
problem in virtual environments, EMC
Avamar Data Protection is extremely
effective at delivering backups in less
time, using fewer network resources and
fewer virtual server resources. Data is
encrypted during network transmission
and at rest for added security. EMC Data
Domain can be added to the overall
solution to send only deduplicated and
compressed data across the network.
Microsoft Exchange Customer Success Stories on Vblock SystemsWhen a company with operations in
London, New York, and Los Angeles
needed a Microsoft Exchange solution
that would provide business continuity,
it chose Vblock Systems. By linking New
York and Los Angeles in an active-active
configuration, the company ensured
availability in the event of a failure at
one site. Similarly, the New York site can
serve as a failover site should London
go down. Vblock systems keep 45,000
users spread across the 3 sites connected
to each other and to the information the
company needs to do business.
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Vblock Data Protection
simplifies compliance,
reduces network traffic,
and ensures the highest
levels of application and
data availability.