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.
Solutions
Enhance your Exchange environment with VMware® Infrastructure 3 features such as VMotion™, High Availability (HA), and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). Enable Exchange Administrators to adapt quickly to changing business needs and provide higher levels of availability.
- VMware® VMotion™ moves running virtual machines, including heavily loaded mailbox virtual machines (VMs), to an alternate physical box with minimal interruption in service and without rebuilding Exchange or waiting for a maintenance window.
- VMware® HA protects against hardware failures for all VMs, including every Exchange server role, without requiring clustering.
- VMware® DRS moves VMs from an ESX server to free up more compute resources for the mailbox VM during a temporary spike in mail usage.
- VMware Infrastructure protects Exchange from hardware problems - clustering, passive servers, or rebuilding Exchange are not required - and supports core Exchange availability technologies.
Eliminate the need for standby or passive instances of Exchange and fully utilize your hardware with simple, cost-effective disaster recovery with VMware Infrastructure 3.
- Entire virtual images can be replicated to a secondary site with no need to deploy separate recovery servers and a second copy of Windows and Exchange.
- VMs 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.
VMware Infrastructure enables Exchange Administrators to keep a complete test version of the Exchange environment.
- An entire infrastructure can be built in the lab that can be used to:
- Test patches and services packs prior to production
- Train IT staff on how the Exchange 2007 environment works
- Test and troubleshoot new configurations
- VMware® Lab Manager enhances the testing lifecycle by allowing multiple VMs to be deployed together into isolated test environments to accommodate multiple testing teams.
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