Running Windows exchange 2010 on a virtualized platform (with Hyper-V or VMware ESX) gives you a plethora of availability and recovery options, each providing varying levels of protection and cost.
Zero time invested in upgrade or system downtime:
A good deal of time, energy, and capital is involved in traditional physical environmental upgrades. It also means risk of data loss and extra time required for the recovery process. Virtualizing exchange server helps save substantial amount of time and money in the following ways—
• Planning and implementation time
• Sizing and acquisition of new hardware
• Downtime for system upgrade, which incurs higher costs and risks of data loss
Faster data recovery minus time and data loss:
Data recovery and systematic storage are the two main concerns for IT professionals. Virtualized Exchange environments can help you recover from-
• Planned or unplanned hardware outages
• Hardware degradation
• Application failure or Failover Clusters
Virtualized capability automatically balances workloads and shared storage on a virtual platform helps in keeping incidents of application failures at bay.
High performance mailbox servers:
Running your exchange server 2010 on a virtualized platform gives you the advantage of enormous largest mailbox server which that exceeds physical performance. In addition, you get the following—
• Virtual Machine scalability up by 8 vCPU and 256 GB of memory
• Disk IO scalability increased to more than 350,000 IOPS, enabling VMware ESX to support IO-intensive applications such as Exchange and large Databases
• Network IO increased to 40 Gbps
This also means enhanced architecture and improved features of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and 2007 that significantly reduce the IO requirements as compared to Exchange 2003.
Do more with enhanced exchange infrastructure:
A virtualized platform for windows exchange server 2010 allows you to scale exchange mailboxes on multiple smaller virtual machines to maximize the throughput of the physical server. Windows Exchange server 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.
GSS Infotech, which has VMWare as one of its strategic alliances helps you leverage the inherent benefits of a Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 deployment on VMware vSphere.
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