High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Exchange Using VMware® Infrastructure 3
Put your Exchange server on VMware® Infrastructure 3, the ideal platform for today’s dynamic messaging environments. Leverage the power of virtualization for your messaging and see how you can easily adapt to changing workloads, scale as your organization grows, and gain protection against common outages that can impact e-mail servers and disrupt communications. Get increased flexibility and improve availability while reducing complexity and costs. VMware® Infrastructure 3 decreases hardware requirements and management costs of running an Exchange infrastructure in production, disaster recovery, and test/development environments.
Resources
White Papers
- Advantages of Virutalizing Exchange 2007 with VMware® Infrastructure 3
- EMC Virtual Solution for Exchange 2007
- Migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 on VMware Infrastructure 3
- HP Performance Paper: Exchange 2007 on VI3
- Dell Performance Paper: Exchange 2003 on VMware and EMC Storage
- Dell Article: Virtualizing MS Exchange Server 2007
- EqualLogic Performance Paper: Storage Solution for Exchange 2007
- Best Practices: Deploying MS Exchange on VMware
FAQ
Case Studies
VMworld Sessions
Podcasts
High Availability for Exchange using VMware
This podcast discusses how VMware® Infrastructure 3 adapts easily to changing workloads, scales as an organization grows, and protects against common outages that can impact e-mail servers and disrupt communications. VMware’s platform for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 leverages the power of virtualization to increase flexibility and improve availability while reducing complexity and costs.
- Increased flexibility, allowing Exchange administrators to proactively manage the Exchange environment to meet changing business requirements
- Reduced costs through automatic hardware failure recovery and consolidation of server roles
- Greater messaging system availability due to greater protection at the hardware level and protection for non-mailbox server roles
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Disaster Recover (DR) for Exchange using VMware
Download this podcast to learn how VMware Infrastructure enables simple, cost-effective disaster recovery for Exchange.
- Entire virtual images can be replicated to a secondary site with no need to deploy separate recovery servers
- Virtual machines can be recovered and physical servers do not need to be dedicated to Exchange recovery
- Exchange administrators do not need to maintain a one-off solution
- VMware® Site Recovery Manager orchestrates the failover of entire datacenters, including Exchange deployments, and enables DR tests to be conducted frequently
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Testing and Troubleshooting for Exchange using VMware
Learn how VMware enables Exchange administrators to build an entire Exchange infrastructure in the lab that can be used to:
- Test patches and services packs prior to production
- Test and troubleshoot new configurations
- Use snapshots to roll back to a previous configuration after a failed patch
- Upgrade physical hardware independently from the OS, Exchange, or any other physical server in the Exchange environment
- Train IT staff on how the Exchange 2007 environment works
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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server
Learn the benefits of using management tools and distributed infrastructure services to help make your Microsoft Exchange servers more responsive to the ebb and flow of email traffic.