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

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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.