Run Exchange on VMware vSphere to not only match, but exceed the performance of physical servers by 100% or more. Consolidate multiple Exchange server roles and mailboxes to reduce infrastructure footprint by 5X to 10X. Deliver Exchange as a dynamic, cost-efficient, and reliable IT service on your internal cloud. Maximize Exchange availability without the complexity of Microsoft clustering. Increase the capacity of Exchange servers by 100%. Dynamically scale Exchange to support increasing loads and eliminate sizing compromises. Accelerate delivery of new email services by provisioning On-Demand, automating release cycles, and streamlining testing and troubleshooting
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Support the Largest Exchange Mailboxes
Leverage the latest advances in VMware vSphere and Exchange performance to run the largest mailbox server instances with confidence that performance will match or exceed physical performance.
The performance and scalability of VMware ESX have improved dramatically over the latest product releases. VMware ESX is able to handle the most demanding workloads thanks to improvements such as:
- Virtual Machine scalability increased to 8 vCPU and 256 GB of memory
- VMware ESX Disk IO scalability increased to more than 200,000 IOPS, enabling VMware ESX to support IO-intensive applications such as Exchange and large Databases
- VMware ESX network IO increased to 40 Gbps
At the same time, Microsoft Exchange 2007 includes architectural and performance improvements that significantly reduce the IO requirements as compared to Exchange 2003:
- Cache increased from 900MB to multi-GB
- 50% reduction in disk IO
- Read / write ratio reduced to 1:1
Together, these performance improvements ensure that even large, demanding mailbox servers perform well on vSphere with no IO bottlenecks or other performance problems.
Double Performance of Exchange Infrastructure
Increase the performance of your physical infrastructure by 100% or more per physical host from 8,000 to 16,000 heavy mailbox users. Without VMware, a single Exchange mailbox running on a physical server can scale up to about 8,000 heavy user mailboxes. Using larger servers doesn’t help because the mailbox can’t leverage the additional capacity.
With VMware, Exchange mailboxes can be scaled out on multiple smaller virtual machines to maximize the throughput of the physical server. Using this approach, we have demonstrated that Exchange can be scaled out on 8 Virtual Machines, each supporting 2,000 very heavy mailbox users, to support 16,000 users on one 16-core server.
The VMware performance advantage will only increase over time with the introduction of larger multicore systems. Without VMware, Exchange will not be able to use the additional capacity of these servers. With VMware, Exchange will scale out linearly with multiple Virtual Machines.
See how implementing an internal cloud helps you provide simple and cost-effective high availability and accelerate your Exchange lifecycle.
