Many organizations depend on Microsoft Exchange for reliable, secure and now unified messaging. Exchange mail stores are constantly growing and changing, and e-mails must be protected and saved for long periods of time – for regulatory compliance, legal discovery, and organizational history. Management complexity and spiraling costs add pressure to Exchange administrators’ challenges. With a Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN you can consolidate your Exchange data for simpler management, lower costs, easy scalability, and better protection.
Empower Exchange Administrators with an Easy-to-Use, Comprehensive, High Performing Solution
Significant time savings for Exchange administrators
Dell's intelligent EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI arrays are optimized for Exchange right out of the box. Virtualization and automatic load balancing of e-mail data result in faster overall Exchange management, while built-in redundancy, hot swap service, snapshots, and auto-replication eliminate downtime.
Higher performance for more users with less hardware
PS Series SANs support the highest Exchange user counts and transactional performance (IOPS) with the least hardware, as documented in the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) 65,000 Exchange 2007 user test report. Maximum performance is provided automatically – PS Series arrays continuously self-optimize as data changes and storage is expanded.
Seamless mail store expansion to accommodate growth
Storage volumes must grow as mail stores, mailbox sizes, and user numbers grow. As Exchange data grows, PS Series volumes grow online. In addition to instant volume expansion, more physical storage can be added non-disruptively to your SAN, increasing capacity and performance with the PS Series online load balancing. With advanced thin provisioning, Exchange mailbox volumes can be preset to a specific size at volume creation. Physical storage is then automatically allocated from the free storage pool as the mailbox store grows in size. The benefits are simpler management of Exchange volumes, more efficient use of physical storage resources, and the realization of seamless “buy as you grow” storage purchasing.
Exchange Storage Group Smart Copy with Auto-Snapshot Manager
The easy-to-use Auto-Snapshot Manager brings Smart Copy capability to Exchange Server deployments. Within an intuitive, simple to use GUI, Exchange administrators can easily make quick snapshots, clones, and replicas of complete storage groups. In the event that e-mails need to be retrieved from a snapshot, clone or replica, Auto-Snapshot Manager provides fast restore capabilities. Collectively these all-inclusive features enhance Exchange administrators’ ability to protect their storage groups and ensure that key electronic communications are available to their users.
Exchange backup and recovery
Auto-replication, a standard PS Series feature, enables Exchange storage groups and SAN boot disks to be replicated to remote sites over standard IP WAN network for disaster protection and recovery. Through the integration and support of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), the Dell EqualLogic PS Series is fully certified and compatible with leading backup and disaster recovery solutions including applications from Asigra, CommVault Systems, Computer Associates, EMC/Legato, FilesX, Lucid8, Microsoft (including Data Protection Manager), Mimosa, Spectra Logic, Sonasoft, Symantec, and TimeSpring.
