EMC VSPEX PROVEN

INFRASTRUCTURE FOR VIRTUALIZED EXCHANGE 2010 Accelerate your IT Transformation of Exchange

Environments with VSPEX

ESSENTIALS

Challenges

Design and Implement well-

performing and scalable Exchange

environments that increase

availability and operational

efficiency while lowering Total Cost

of Ownership

The Solution

VSPEX consolidates and virtualizes

Exchange infrastructure while

addressing user SLAs, lowering

costs and simplifying overall

management.

Simple

Easy to use tools for provisioning

and backup.

Efficient

Streamlined Exchange infrastructure

including VM Management, storage

and backup deduplication.

Flexible

Scalable Reference Architectures

that provide flexibility with support

for industry leading virtualization,

server and networking technologies.

THE CHALLENGE: ACCELERATE DEPLOYMENT AND

MAINTAIN AVAILABILITY Email is an indispensible lifeline for communication within your business, not to mention

connecting you with customers, prospects, partners, and suppliers. IT administrators

supporting Microsoft Exchange Server are challenged with maintaining the highest possible

levels of availability, performance and application efficiency. At the same time, most

struggle to keep pace with relentless data growth while working to overcome diminishing

budgets. Administering, protecting, and managing an Exchange environment for a modern

geographically diverse work force is a major challenge for most IT departments. Many

businesses try to address these challenges by adding physical servers and inefficient direct

attached storage which further compounds the problem and increase costs. Traditional

backup cannot keep pace either - businesses are struggling to get backups done within

available windows and to control backup data growth.

THE SOLUTION: VSPEX FOR VIRTUALIZED

EXCHANGE EMC has joined forces with the industry’s leading providers of IT infrastructure to create a

complete virtualization solution that accelerates deployment of private cloud and Microsoft

Exchange. Built with best-of-breed technologies including EMC VNX and VNXe storage,

VSPEX enables faster deployment, more simplicity, greater choice, higher efficiency, and

lower risk. Validation by EMC ensures predictable performance and enables customers to

select technology that leverages their existing IT infrastructure while eliminating planning,

sizing, and configuration burdens. VSPEX provides Exchange infrastructures for customers

looking to simplify - that is characteristic of truly converged infrastructures - while at the

same time gaining more choice in individual stack components.

SIMPLE: EXCHANGE PROVISIONING EMC VSPEX for Virtualized Exchange streamlines storage operations by leveraging EMC

Unisphere. Unisphere integrates storage management practices with the server and

application platforms that it supports enabling Exchange and storage administrators to

easily create, provision and manage storage resources without having to learn another

platform. VSPEX solutions leveraging VNXe storage include a wizard-driven interface to

simply provisioning for Exchange environments allowing you to deploy storage for

Exchange in fewer than 10 clicks. EMC's tight integration with Microsoft and VMware make

adding storage and monitoring its usage simple in any VSPEX Reference Architecture with

the Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) and EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) plug-ins.

VSPEX for Virtualized Exchange is

complete Proven Infrastructure,

consolidating VMs, x86 Server,

Network, Storage and Backup for

fast deployment, more simplicity,

greater choice, higher efficiency and

lower risk.

EFFICIENT: STREAMLINE OPERATIONS VSPEX enables Exchange Administrators to become more efficient, productive and able to

spend time planning rather than reacting. VSPEX eliminates isolated servers and pockets

of storage by transforming your environment from isolated and costly physical systems to

fast, efficient and easy to manage virtual systems that leverage EMC storage & backup

optimized for virtualization. VSPEX for Virtualized Exchange leverages AppSync for a self

service, SLA-driven approach, for protecting virtualized Microsoft applications. Exchange

backup is simplified by consolidating backups on EMC purpose built backup appliances

which provide fast recoveries from disk and provide end-to-end verification, continuous

fault protection and self-healing for ensured recovery. With EMC Data Domain, EMC

Avamar and/or EMC NetWorker providing the speed, efficiency and reliability needed,

backup and recovery of your infrastructure is made easy. Data Protection for VSPEX can

provide: up to 90% reduction in your Microsoft backup times in virtual environments; up to

30x faster recoveries in virtual environments; 10-30x less storage required; 81% less

effort in backup admin time; all while you keep control and visibility.

Today Exchange Administrators are looking for a way to reduce production environment

size without placing quotas or restrictions on users. EMC SourceOne is an optional

management shortcut technology which gives users access to their email and attachments

without housing the data within the production environment. Not only does this solve the

problems associated with restrictive quotas, it also removes the risk associated with local

archives.

FLEXIBLE: PROVEN INTEGRATION VSPEX provides businesses the flexibility to choose hypervisors, servers and networking

coupled with EMC Unified Storage and EMC Backup and Recovery that is optimized for

virtualization to deliver increased performance, reliability, and availability of your Exchange

environment. VSPEX flexibly scales as your business needs change and through deep

integration with our technology partners VSPEX create an agile and flexible foundation

enabling the delivery of new value-added services and protection to your rapidly changing

IT environment and business needs. EMC provides flexible backup software and hardware

options that are part of every VSPEX solution. Avamar and EMC NetWorker provide

support for incremental Exchange backups. Mailbox, folder and message level recoveries

can also be supported from the single VSS based backup taken for an Exchange server.

CONTACT US

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products, services, and solutions

can help solve your business and IT

challenges, contact your local

representative or authorized

reseller—or visit us at

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