Email systems, such as Microsoft Exchange, have become today’s preferred business communication tool. Access to email is required 24x7 and email volume is growing at unprecedented rates, creating a sharp increase in storage capacity needs, availability requirements, and better processes and tools to manage the escalating need for infrastructure.
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Solution Brief IBM Systems and Technology Group IBM System Storage ESRP-tested XIV solutions for Microsoft Exchange IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange production, Unified Communications and archiving environments Email systems, such as Microsoft Exchange, have become today’s preferred business communication tool. Access to email is required 24x7 and email volume is growing at unprecedented rates, creating a sharp increase in storage capacity needs, availability requirements, and better processes and tools to manage the escalating need for infrastructure. These concerns result in increased costs enterprises have to manage and are offset by implementing new technologies—technologies that make managing mission-critical communication services simple. With Microsoft Exchange databases at the core of many organizations’ critical operations, rapid database growth can quickly impact productivity if the volume of data degrades performance or availability. So how can companies maximize email performance and availability to ensure ongoing business productivity? The answer is simple. IBM delivers outstanding performance and availability with IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage System solutions for Microsoft Exchange, helping address challenges surrounding email production as well as archiving environments. XIV helps cost-effectively manage growing Microsoft Exchange environments, potentially reducing database size while improving application performance and availability. Why not simplify and consolidate infrastructure with the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP)-tested IBM XIV or XIV Gen3 Storage Systems? The incredible ease of management, advanced data distribution technology, self-tuning capability and automatic (and extremely quick) drive rebuild offer Exchange administrators and storage architects new tools to deliver a robust, yet easily managed Exchange storage solution. Advanced features such as copy services, thin provisioning, full Multipath I/O (MPIO), Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support, and solid-state drive (SSD)-ready XIV Gen3 increased performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives and InfiniBand fabric offer additional flexibility and support in terms of performance, availability and quick recovery, ensuring optimal, efficient usage of storage subsystems. Highlights: • Proven enterprise-ready interoperability for your Microsoft environments that help optimize your IT infrastructure with Microsoft Exchange and IBM® XIV® through Microsoft ESRP-tested solutions • Realize improved service levels, protect your data and attain maximum value from your email systems • Simplify and consolidate infrastructure, and lower total ownership costs using IBM XIV Storage System solutions for Exchange Server data • Focus resources on strategic issues by delivering a high quality of service that is simple to configure and manage • Move to grid-based storage systems to ensure that the infrastructure can easily scale to support future needs • Complement your solution with IBM Tivoli® FlashCopy® Manager data protection software System Storage
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Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM System Storage ESRP-tested XIV solutions for Microsoft Exchange IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange production Unified Communications and archiving environments
Email systems such as Microsoft Exchange have become todayrsquos preferred business communication tool Access to email is required 24x7 and email volume is growing at unprecedented rates creating a sharp increase in storage capacity needs availability requirements and better processes and tools to manage the escalating need for infrastructure These concerns result in increased costs enterprises have to manage and are offset by implementing new technologiesmdashtechnologies that make managing mission-critical communication services simple With Microsoft Exchange databases at the core of many organizationsrsquo critical operations rapid database growth can quickly impact productivity if the volume of data degrades performance or availability So how can companies maximize email performance and availability to ensure ongoing business productivity
The answer is simple IBM delivers outstanding performance and availability with IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage System solutions for Microsoft Exchange helping address challenges surrounding email production as well as archiving environments XIV helps cost-effectively manage growing Microsoft Exchange environments potentially reducing database size while improving application performance and availability
Why not simplify and consolidate infrastructure with the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP)-tested IBM XIV or XIV Gen3 Storage Systems The incredible ease of management advanced data distribution technology self-tuning capability and automatic (and extremely quick) drive rebuild offer Exchange administrators and storage architects new tools to deliver a robust yet easily managed Exchange storage solution Advanced features such as copy services thin provisioning full Multipath IO (MPIO) Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support and solid-state drive (SSD)-ready XIV Gen3 increased performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives and InfiniBand fabric offer additional flexibility and support in terms of performance availability and quick recovery ensuring optimal efficient usage of storage subsystems
IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System Model 2810-114 120000 Mailbox Resiliency Exchange 2010 Storage Solution ESRP Measured Results
Microsoft ESRP program-tested XIV Gen3 Storage System solutions for Microsoft ExchangeMicrosoft ESRP-Storage is designed to facilitate third-party storage testing and solution publishing for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 software Most customers do not purchase storage for Microsoft Exchange environments without Microsoft validation through the ESRP program The program combines a storage testing harness (JetStress) with solution publishing guidelines Test results are submitted and thoroughly reviewed by Microsoft prior to posting on the Microsoft website as well as vendor websites
IBM was the very first vendor to complete ESRP-Storage submissions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 The resulting ESRP solutionsizing guides for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with the IBM XIV Storage System together with IBM System x3650 Intel processor-based servers were the first to showcase the scalability and capabilities of the IBM XIV solution This solution validates a 40000-user email environment using a very heavy mail profile1 and 1 GB mailbox size With XIV Storage System Gen3 IBM further demonstrates XIV capabilities to smoothly manage a very large Exchange 2010 environment with 120000 users
The tested Exchange Server 2010 solutions implement the new Mailbox Resiliency features in Exchange Server 2010 specifically the database availability group (DAG) feature A DAG is a set of up to 16 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox servers that work together to provide automatic database-level recovery from a database server or network failure Mailbox servers in a DAG monitor each other for failures Solutions that implement this feature can deliver a very robust Exchange environment that is more reliable than traditional systems
The Gen3 ESRP demonstrates the benefits of the architectural improvements of SAS drives and InfiniBand fabric The Gen3 platform is able to drive a significantly higher number of Exchange mailboxes within the same physical footprint as the second generation of XIV which eases manageability reduces storage sprawl and helps reduce environmental costs within the data center
Performance Parameter Value
Database IO
Database disks transferssec 16264455
Database disks readssec 10048637
Database disks writessec 6215818
Average database disk read latency (ms) 169294444
Average database disk write latency (ms) 193183333
bull Protection and compliance Exchange Server 2010 delivers new integrated email archiving and retention functionality including granular multi-mailbox search and immediate legal hold Exchange Server 2010 also helps better protect communications and email through centrally managed information control capabilities Featuring the ability to more effectively intercept moderate encrypt and block email messages this functionality provides a flexible range of protection and control options either to automatically enforce controls or empower users to implement their own data protection
As Microsoft Exchange evolves this client-server technology demands high-performance low-latency storage systems to support its database and log files The XIV family of storage systems offers proven enterprise-class performance solid protection and ease of manageability to meet the most stringent storage requirements of the Microsoft Exchange environment Both IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems are innovative virtualized grid-based storage solutions with a self-tuning self-healing architecture designed to provide optimized and cost-effective storage
Differentiated by its inherent self-optimizing grid-based architecture and massive parallelism the XIV family automatically distributes data across all available storage resources harnessing all the processing power available to the system Because of this design hot spots normally associated with poor storage configuration andor workload variances are eliminated The XIV architecture continually optimizes performance thereby eliminating the need for complex and time-consuming storage tuning activities that are commonplace in traditional storage products
XIV resiliency features help address unexpected failures as well as scheduled downtimes Additionally the IBM XIV family of storage systems can maintain availability and performance after an entire disk shelf is removed from the system Competing storage systems would need to provide an additional system along with replication software and an intelligent layer of software at the server level to help recover during a system failure This is not only costly in terms of budget but in terms of time to recover when a failure occurs Finally XIV is able to very quickly recover after multiple cascading module failures XIV is able to continue to operate in the face of multiple shelf failures providing the performance and availability that is required by todayrsquos enterprise applications
Built for Microsoft ExchangeMicrosoft Exchange is primarily a transaction-oriented application using Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) databases to store its messages and attachments Over the years Microsoft Exchange Server has evolved into a more complete solution For example Exchange 2003 introduced Recovery Storage Groups and enhanced message journaling to help meet recovery and compliance needs Enhancements in Exchange 2007 brought new high availability (HA) features as well as refined journaling through transport-level rules Exchange 2010 has removed all previous HA solutions in favor of the new resilient DAGs
bull Flexible and reliable The pressure to optimize IT infrastructure to respond to changing business conditions demands agility and that means investing in solutions that provide organizational flexibility and choice Exchange Server 2010 helps tailor deployment based on unique needs for a simplified way to help keep email continuously available for users
bull Client throttling Exchange Server 2010 uses client throttling policies to manage the performance for an Exchange environment Exchange tracks the resources that each user consumes and enforces connection bandwidth limits as necessary Client throttling policies are managed using shell cmdlets that help ensure users are not intentionally or unintentionally taxing the system users with different connectivity methods can then proportionally share available resources resulting in balanced performance across all users that helps ensure better quality of service and simpler system management
bull Anywhere access Enhancements in Exchange Server 2010 help user productivity with access to almost any communicationmdashemail voice mail instant messagingmdashfrom virtually any platform web browser or device through industry-standard protocols Managing the flow of information into and out of an individualrsquos inbox is time-consuming and can affect productivity and profitability In response to this challenge Exchange Server 2010 adds new productivity features that can help users more easily organize and effectively prioritize their communications
System Storage
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
As businesses increase their reliance on email systems resilience in the face of unplanned outages becomes the requirement The IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems with proven grid architecture maintain availability and performance of Microsoft Exchange environments as these scheduled or unscheduled outages arise
IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System Higher performance for Exchange environmentsThe IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System carries on the XIV tradition by providing consistent high performance and high reliability with a low total cost of ownership XIV Gen3 uses the same software features as the previous generation and offers up to four times the performance using a high-speed InfiniBand internal interconnect load balancing and the power of all system resources innovative caching and high-performing CPUs combining to support higher performance XIV Gen3 offers up to 180 2 TB SAS hard disk drives up to 161 TB of usable capacity in a single frame up to 24 ports of 8 Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity up to 22 ports of 1 Gb iSCSI host connectivity and up to 360 GB of cache
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for Microsoft ExchangeComplement your solution with IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager which enables individual mailbox and mail item restores of Microsoft Exchange servers from a snapshot backup Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager utilizes storage snapshot capabilities to provide high-speed low-impact application data backup and restore functionality for application and storage environments Automated policy-based management of multiple snapshot backup versions together with a simple and guided installation and configuration process provide an easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy data protection solution that can help meet the most stringent Exchange recovery time requirements
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager also supports clustered application environments (Microsoft Cluster Server and Veritas Cluster Server) on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange 2007 continuous replication configurations local continuous replication (LCR) cluster continuous replication (CCR) and standby continuous replication (SCR) Exchange Server 2010 DAG functionality is also fully supported
Ease of managementIngeneralstoragemanagementcanbeadauntingtaskrequiringextensivestorageexperienceandspecializedtrainingThesearenolongerrequiredbecausetheXIVandXIVGen3StorageSystemsprovideahighlyintuitivegraphicaluserinterface(GUI)calledXIVStorageManagementInpracticeIBMXIVadministratorshaveprovisionedanddeliveredstorageresourcestotheirapplicationswithouttrainingorservicesfromIBMAless-experiencedstorageadministratorwithlittleornoXIVStorageSystemexperiencecanallocatestorageandmapvolumestohostsinlessthan15minutesStoragemanagementtaskstakelesstimeallowingstoragetobeutilizedfaster
Lower power consumptionTheXIVGen3isequippedwithhigh-capacitySAS-2disksSAS-2diskdrivescanprovidesignificantlybetterinvestmentvaluethanFibreChannel(FC)disksSAS-2disksalsoconsumelesspowerthanFCdisksSinceSAS-2diskdrivesaregenerallymuchhigherincapacitythanFCdiskswhileofferingincreasedperformanceversusXIVsecond-generationSerialATA(SATA)IIdisksatasimilarpricepointyourExchangeenvironmentmayrequirelessfloorspacefewerharddrivesandlesscoolingandpowerforagivencapacity
Point-in-time recovery with XIV snapshotsXIVfamilyinherentsnapshotcapabilitiesdelivernear-instantaneousreplicasoftheMicrosoftExchangeenvironmentThesnapshotcapabilitieswithintheIBMXIVStorageSystemSoftwareutilizeametadataredirect-on-writedesignthatallowssnapshotstooccurinasubsecondtimeframewithverylittleperformanceoverheadThousandsoffullordifferentialcopiescanbetakenAnyofthesnapshotscanbemadewritableandthensnapshotscanbetakenofthenewlywritablesnapshotsVolumescanevenberestoredfromthesewritablesnapshotsSnapshotsprovidetheabilitytobackupExchangedatabaseswithminimalimpacttoproductionserversandcanalsoprovideenhancedrecoveryoptionsthroughtheMicrosoftVSSframework
System Storage
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
Top five reasons to choose IBMMicrosoft Exchange environments experience dramatically improved performance and availability while improving total cost of ownership with IBM based on the following benefits
1 Microsoft skills IBM consultants through the Enterprise Services for Microsoft Technologies Practice services organization provide a full range of services for customers who have selected Microsoft technology to help them achieve maximum levels of performance and data protection for Microsoft Exchange environments
2 Proven solutions IBM leverages major Microsoft program initiatives using Microsoft Partner and Technology Adoption (TAP) programs including Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Programs (ESRP) and the Exchange Tested Solutions Program to test validate and qualify its storage solutions and furnishes IBM storage to various Microsoft labs and the Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) for internal and customer testing and proofs of concepts (POCs) IBM offers many complementary solutions for the Exchange environment including VSS-enabled backup and restore disaster recovery and archive solutions
3 Data protection For the enterprise IBM supports a wide variety of nondisruptive Exchange data protection solutions using Tivoli software including FastBack and FlashCopy Manager Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec Microsoft DPM and CommVault software
4 Joint collaboration Microsoft and IBM have been working together for over 25 years collaborating on joint initiatives and solutions IBM is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IBM System Storagereg and IBM System xreg hardware and software are used within Microsoft labs and IBM has dedicated resources at Microsoftrsquos Redmond campus
5 Helps to reduce costs IBM offers storage that performs among the industryrsquos lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions using storage system packaging and always-included functionality
What is the IBM advantage You get some of the best storage products technologies services and solutions for your Microsoft Exchange environment backed by proven expertise and flexible financing
Online near-instant snapshot backup and restore of critical business application data
Microsoft Exchange individual mailbox restore from a snapshot backupTivoliStorageFlashCopyManagerenablesindividualmailboxandmailitemrestoresofMicrosoftExchangeserversfromasnapshotbackupCapabilitiesprovidedbull Supportsingleormultipleusermailboxesbull Restoreselectablebasedonusernameanddateandtimespecification
Microsoft Exchange protectionbull SnapshotrestoreofMicrosoftExchangestoragegroupsbull File-copyrestoreofastoragegroupordatabasefromamountedsnapshotimage
IBM Corporation Integrated Marketing Communications Systems and Technology Group Route 100 Somers NY 10589
Produced in the United States October 2011 All Rights Reserved
1A very heavy user profile is defined as 048 IOPs for Exchange Server 2007 and 011 IOPs for Exchange Server 2010 and is approximately equivalent to a profile with 150 email receives 50 email sends per day with no deletions and an average email size of 50 KB The information in this document may be subject to change without notice Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the products features and services available in your area
All statements regarding IBM future directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only
IBM the IBM logo ibmcom FlashCopy Storage System Tivoli and XIV are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol (reg or trade) indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published A full list of US trademarks owned by IBM may be found at httpwwwibmcomlegalcopytradeshtml
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries
Microsoft Windows Windows NT and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both
TSS03061-USEN-02
For more information about IBM System Storage for Microsoft Exchange Environments contact your IBM representative or visit the following websites
Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions Whitepapers site httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-uslibrarygg513520aspx
IBM System Storage ISV solutions complementary storage solutions for Exchange httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragesolutionsisvisv_microsofthtml
IBM XIV Storage System httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragediskxivindexhtml
IBM XIV documents within the Techdocs technical library httpwww-03ibmcomsupporttechdocsatsmastrnsfWebDocsSearchampQuery=[HTMLDocumentName=WM]+AND+28XIV29ampStart=1ampCount=50ampSearchOrder=1ampSearchMax=10000
Microsoft ESRP v21 (Exchange Server 2007) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangebb412164aspx
Microsoft ESRP v30 (Exchange Server 2010) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangeff182054aspx
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
XIV Gen3 120000 mailbox ESRP A high-performance platform for Exchange Server 2010
IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System Model 2810-114 120000 Mailbox Resiliency Exchange 2010 Storage Solution ESRP Measured Results
Microsoft ESRP program-tested XIV Gen3 Storage System solutions for Microsoft ExchangeMicrosoft ESRP-Storage is designed to facilitate third-party storage testing and solution publishing for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 software Most customers do not purchase storage for Microsoft Exchange environments without Microsoft validation through the ESRP program The program combines a storage testing harness (JetStress) with solution publishing guidelines Test results are submitted and thoroughly reviewed by Microsoft prior to posting on the Microsoft website as well as vendor websites
IBM was the very first vendor to complete ESRP-Storage submissions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 The resulting ESRP solutionsizing guides for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with the IBM XIV Storage System together with IBM System x3650 Intel processor-based servers were the first to showcase the scalability and capabilities of the IBM XIV solution This solution validates a 40000-user email environment using a very heavy mail profile1 and 1 GB mailbox size With XIV Storage System Gen3 IBM further demonstrates XIV capabilities to smoothly manage a very large Exchange 2010 environment with 120000 users
The tested Exchange Server 2010 solutions implement the new Mailbox Resiliency features in Exchange Server 2010 specifically the database availability group (DAG) feature A DAG is a set of up to 16 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox servers that work together to provide automatic database-level recovery from a database server or network failure Mailbox servers in a DAG monitor each other for failures Solutions that implement this feature can deliver a very robust Exchange environment that is more reliable than traditional systems
The Gen3 ESRP demonstrates the benefits of the architectural improvements of SAS drives and InfiniBand fabric The Gen3 platform is able to drive a significantly higher number of Exchange mailboxes within the same physical footprint as the second generation of XIV which eases manageability reduces storage sprawl and helps reduce environmental costs within the data center
Performance Parameter Value
Database IO
Database disks transferssec 16264455
Database disks readssec 10048637
Database disks writessec 6215818
Average database disk read latency (ms) 169294444
Average database disk write latency (ms) 193183333
bull Protection and compliance Exchange Server 2010 delivers new integrated email archiving and retention functionality including granular multi-mailbox search and immediate legal hold Exchange Server 2010 also helps better protect communications and email through centrally managed information control capabilities Featuring the ability to more effectively intercept moderate encrypt and block email messages this functionality provides a flexible range of protection and control options either to automatically enforce controls or empower users to implement their own data protection
As Microsoft Exchange evolves this client-server technology demands high-performance low-latency storage systems to support its database and log files The XIV family of storage systems offers proven enterprise-class performance solid protection and ease of manageability to meet the most stringent storage requirements of the Microsoft Exchange environment Both IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems are innovative virtualized grid-based storage solutions with a self-tuning self-healing architecture designed to provide optimized and cost-effective storage
Differentiated by its inherent self-optimizing grid-based architecture and massive parallelism the XIV family automatically distributes data across all available storage resources harnessing all the processing power available to the system Because of this design hot spots normally associated with poor storage configuration andor workload variances are eliminated The XIV architecture continually optimizes performance thereby eliminating the need for complex and time-consuming storage tuning activities that are commonplace in traditional storage products
XIV resiliency features help address unexpected failures as well as scheduled downtimes Additionally the IBM XIV family of storage systems can maintain availability and performance after an entire disk shelf is removed from the system Competing storage systems would need to provide an additional system along with replication software and an intelligent layer of software at the server level to help recover during a system failure This is not only costly in terms of budget but in terms of time to recover when a failure occurs Finally XIV is able to very quickly recover after multiple cascading module failures XIV is able to continue to operate in the face of multiple shelf failures providing the performance and availability that is required by todayrsquos enterprise applications
Built for Microsoft ExchangeMicrosoft Exchange is primarily a transaction-oriented application using Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) databases to store its messages and attachments Over the years Microsoft Exchange Server has evolved into a more complete solution For example Exchange 2003 introduced Recovery Storage Groups and enhanced message journaling to help meet recovery and compliance needs Enhancements in Exchange 2007 brought new high availability (HA) features as well as refined journaling through transport-level rules Exchange 2010 has removed all previous HA solutions in favor of the new resilient DAGs
bull Flexible and reliable The pressure to optimize IT infrastructure to respond to changing business conditions demands agility and that means investing in solutions that provide organizational flexibility and choice Exchange Server 2010 helps tailor deployment based on unique needs for a simplified way to help keep email continuously available for users
bull Client throttling Exchange Server 2010 uses client throttling policies to manage the performance for an Exchange environment Exchange tracks the resources that each user consumes and enforces connection bandwidth limits as necessary Client throttling policies are managed using shell cmdlets that help ensure users are not intentionally or unintentionally taxing the system users with different connectivity methods can then proportionally share available resources resulting in balanced performance across all users that helps ensure better quality of service and simpler system management
bull Anywhere access Enhancements in Exchange Server 2010 help user productivity with access to almost any communicationmdashemail voice mail instant messagingmdashfrom virtually any platform web browser or device through industry-standard protocols Managing the flow of information into and out of an individualrsquos inbox is time-consuming and can affect productivity and profitability In response to this challenge Exchange Server 2010 adds new productivity features that can help users more easily organize and effectively prioritize their communications
System Storage
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
As businesses increase their reliance on email systems resilience in the face of unplanned outages becomes the requirement The IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems with proven grid architecture maintain availability and performance of Microsoft Exchange environments as these scheduled or unscheduled outages arise
IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System Higher performance for Exchange environmentsThe IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System carries on the XIV tradition by providing consistent high performance and high reliability with a low total cost of ownership XIV Gen3 uses the same software features as the previous generation and offers up to four times the performance using a high-speed InfiniBand internal interconnect load balancing and the power of all system resources innovative caching and high-performing CPUs combining to support higher performance XIV Gen3 offers up to 180 2 TB SAS hard disk drives up to 161 TB of usable capacity in a single frame up to 24 ports of 8 Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity up to 22 ports of 1 Gb iSCSI host connectivity and up to 360 GB of cache
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for Microsoft ExchangeComplement your solution with IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager which enables individual mailbox and mail item restores of Microsoft Exchange servers from a snapshot backup Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager utilizes storage snapshot capabilities to provide high-speed low-impact application data backup and restore functionality for application and storage environments Automated policy-based management of multiple snapshot backup versions together with a simple and guided installation and configuration process provide an easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy data protection solution that can help meet the most stringent Exchange recovery time requirements
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager also supports clustered application environments (Microsoft Cluster Server and Veritas Cluster Server) on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange 2007 continuous replication configurations local continuous replication (LCR) cluster continuous replication (CCR) and standby continuous replication (SCR) Exchange Server 2010 DAG functionality is also fully supported
Ease of managementIngeneralstoragemanagementcanbeadauntingtaskrequiringextensivestorageexperienceandspecializedtrainingThesearenolongerrequiredbecausetheXIVandXIVGen3StorageSystemsprovideahighlyintuitivegraphicaluserinterface(GUI)calledXIVStorageManagementInpracticeIBMXIVadministratorshaveprovisionedanddeliveredstorageresourcestotheirapplicationswithouttrainingorservicesfromIBMAless-experiencedstorageadministratorwithlittleornoXIVStorageSystemexperiencecanallocatestorageandmapvolumestohostsinlessthan15minutesStoragemanagementtaskstakelesstimeallowingstoragetobeutilizedfaster
Lower power consumptionTheXIVGen3isequippedwithhigh-capacitySAS-2disksSAS-2diskdrivescanprovidesignificantlybetterinvestmentvaluethanFibreChannel(FC)disksSAS-2disksalsoconsumelesspowerthanFCdisksSinceSAS-2diskdrivesaregenerallymuchhigherincapacitythanFCdiskswhileofferingincreasedperformanceversusXIVsecond-generationSerialATA(SATA)IIdisksatasimilarpricepointyourExchangeenvironmentmayrequirelessfloorspacefewerharddrivesandlesscoolingandpowerforagivencapacity
Point-in-time recovery with XIV snapshotsXIVfamilyinherentsnapshotcapabilitiesdelivernear-instantaneousreplicasoftheMicrosoftExchangeenvironmentThesnapshotcapabilitieswithintheIBMXIVStorageSystemSoftwareutilizeametadataredirect-on-writedesignthatallowssnapshotstooccurinasubsecondtimeframewithverylittleperformanceoverheadThousandsoffullordifferentialcopiescanbetakenAnyofthesnapshotscanbemadewritableandthensnapshotscanbetakenofthenewlywritablesnapshotsVolumescanevenberestoredfromthesewritablesnapshotsSnapshotsprovidetheabilitytobackupExchangedatabaseswithminimalimpacttoproductionserversandcanalsoprovideenhancedrecoveryoptionsthroughtheMicrosoftVSSframework
System Storage
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
Top five reasons to choose IBMMicrosoft Exchange environments experience dramatically improved performance and availability while improving total cost of ownership with IBM based on the following benefits
1 Microsoft skills IBM consultants through the Enterprise Services for Microsoft Technologies Practice services organization provide a full range of services for customers who have selected Microsoft technology to help them achieve maximum levels of performance and data protection for Microsoft Exchange environments
2 Proven solutions IBM leverages major Microsoft program initiatives using Microsoft Partner and Technology Adoption (TAP) programs including Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Programs (ESRP) and the Exchange Tested Solutions Program to test validate and qualify its storage solutions and furnishes IBM storage to various Microsoft labs and the Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) for internal and customer testing and proofs of concepts (POCs) IBM offers many complementary solutions for the Exchange environment including VSS-enabled backup and restore disaster recovery and archive solutions
3 Data protection For the enterprise IBM supports a wide variety of nondisruptive Exchange data protection solutions using Tivoli software including FastBack and FlashCopy Manager Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec Microsoft DPM and CommVault software
4 Joint collaboration Microsoft and IBM have been working together for over 25 years collaborating on joint initiatives and solutions IBM is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IBM System Storagereg and IBM System xreg hardware and software are used within Microsoft labs and IBM has dedicated resources at Microsoftrsquos Redmond campus
5 Helps to reduce costs IBM offers storage that performs among the industryrsquos lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions using storage system packaging and always-included functionality
What is the IBM advantage You get some of the best storage products technologies services and solutions for your Microsoft Exchange environment backed by proven expertise and flexible financing
Online near-instant snapshot backup and restore of critical business application data
Microsoft Exchange individual mailbox restore from a snapshot backupTivoliStorageFlashCopyManagerenablesindividualmailboxandmailitemrestoresofMicrosoftExchangeserversfromasnapshotbackupCapabilitiesprovidedbull Supportsingleormultipleusermailboxesbull Restoreselectablebasedonusernameanddateandtimespecification
Microsoft Exchange protectionbull SnapshotrestoreofMicrosoftExchangestoragegroupsbull File-copyrestoreofastoragegroupordatabasefromamountedsnapshotimage
IBM Corporation Integrated Marketing Communications Systems and Technology Group Route 100 Somers NY 10589
Produced in the United States October 2011 All Rights Reserved
1A very heavy user profile is defined as 048 IOPs for Exchange Server 2007 and 011 IOPs for Exchange Server 2010 and is approximately equivalent to a profile with 150 email receives 50 email sends per day with no deletions and an average email size of 50 KB The information in this document may be subject to change without notice Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the products features and services available in your area
All statements regarding IBM future directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only
IBM the IBM logo ibmcom FlashCopy Storage System Tivoli and XIV are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol (reg or trade) indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published A full list of US trademarks owned by IBM may be found at httpwwwibmcomlegalcopytradeshtml
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries
Microsoft Windows Windows NT and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both
TSS03061-USEN-02
For more information about IBM System Storage for Microsoft Exchange Environments contact your IBM representative or visit the following websites
Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions Whitepapers site httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-uslibrarygg513520aspx
IBM System Storage ISV solutions complementary storage solutions for Exchange httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragesolutionsisvisv_microsofthtml
IBM XIV Storage System httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragediskxivindexhtml
IBM XIV documents within the Techdocs technical library httpwww-03ibmcomsupporttechdocsatsmastrnsfWebDocsSearchampQuery=[HTMLDocumentName=WM]+AND+28XIV29ampStart=1ampCount=50ampSearchOrder=1ampSearchMax=10000
Microsoft ESRP v21 (Exchange Server 2007) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangebb412164aspx
Microsoft ESRP v30 (Exchange Server 2010) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangeff182054aspx
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
bull Protection and compliance Exchange Server 2010 delivers new integrated email archiving and retention functionality including granular multi-mailbox search and immediate legal hold Exchange Server 2010 also helps better protect communications and email through centrally managed information control capabilities Featuring the ability to more effectively intercept moderate encrypt and block email messages this functionality provides a flexible range of protection and control options either to automatically enforce controls or empower users to implement their own data protection
As Microsoft Exchange evolves this client-server technology demands high-performance low-latency storage systems to support its database and log files The XIV family of storage systems offers proven enterprise-class performance solid protection and ease of manageability to meet the most stringent storage requirements of the Microsoft Exchange environment Both IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems are innovative virtualized grid-based storage solutions with a self-tuning self-healing architecture designed to provide optimized and cost-effective storage
Differentiated by its inherent self-optimizing grid-based architecture and massive parallelism the XIV family automatically distributes data across all available storage resources harnessing all the processing power available to the system Because of this design hot spots normally associated with poor storage configuration andor workload variances are eliminated The XIV architecture continually optimizes performance thereby eliminating the need for complex and time-consuming storage tuning activities that are commonplace in traditional storage products
XIV resiliency features help address unexpected failures as well as scheduled downtimes Additionally the IBM XIV family of storage systems can maintain availability and performance after an entire disk shelf is removed from the system Competing storage systems would need to provide an additional system along with replication software and an intelligent layer of software at the server level to help recover during a system failure This is not only costly in terms of budget but in terms of time to recover when a failure occurs Finally XIV is able to very quickly recover after multiple cascading module failures XIV is able to continue to operate in the face of multiple shelf failures providing the performance and availability that is required by todayrsquos enterprise applications
Built for Microsoft ExchangeMicrosoft Exchange is primarily a transaction-oriented application using Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) databases to store its messages and attachments Over the years Microsoft Exchange Server has evolved into a more complete solution For example Exchange 2003 introduced Recovery Storage Groups and enhanced message journaling to help meet recovery and compliance needs Enhancements in Exchange 2007 brought new high availability (HA) features as well as refined journaling through transport-level rules Exchange 2010 has removed all previous HA solutions in favor of the new resilient DAGs
bull Flexible and reliable The pressure to optimize IT infrastructure to respond to changing business conditions demands agility and that means investing in solutions that provide organizational flexibility and choice Exchange Server 2010 helps tailor deployment based on unique needs for a simplified way to help keep email continuously available for users
bull Client throttling Exchange Server 2010 uses client throttling policies to manage the performance for an Exchange environment Exchange tracks the resources that each user consumes and enforces connection bandwidth limits as necessary Client throttling policies are managed using shell cmdlets that help ensure users are not intentionally or unintentionally taxing the system users with different connectivity methods can then proportionally share available resources resulting in balanced performance across all users that helps ensure better quality of service and simpler system management
bull Anywhere access Enhancements in Exchange Server 2010 help user productivity with access to almost any communicationmdashemail voice mail instant messagingmdashfrom virtually any platform web browser or device through industry-standard protocols Managing the flow of information into and out of an individualrsquos inbox is time-consuming and can affect productivity and profitability In response to this challenge Exchange Server 2010 adds new productivity features that can help users more easily organize and effectively prioritize their communications
System Storage
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
As businesses increase their reliance on email systems resilience in the face of unplanned outages becomes the requirement The IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems with proven grid architecture maintain availability and performance of Microsoft Exchange environments as these scheduled or unscheduled outages arise
IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System Higher performance for Exchange environmentsThe IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System carries on the XIV tradition by providing consistent high performance and high reliability with a low total cost of ownership XIV Gen3 uses the same software features as the previous generation and offers up to four times the performance using a high-speed InfiniBand internal interconnect load balancing and the power of all system resources innovative caching and high-performing CPUs combining to support higher performance XIV Gen3 offers up to 180 2 TB SAS hard disk drives up to 161 TB of usable capacity in a single frame up to 24 ports of 8 Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity up to 22 ports of 1 Gb iSCSI host connectivity and up to 360 GB of cache
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for Microsoft ExchangeComplement your solution with IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager which enables individual mailbox and mail item restores of Microsoft Exchange servers from a snapshot backup Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager utilizes storage snapshot capabilities to provide high-speed low-impact application data backup and restore functionality for application and storage environments Automated policy-based management of multiple snapshot backup versions together with a simple and guided installation and configuration process provide an easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy data protection solution that can help meet the most stringent Exchange recovery time requirements
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager also supports clustered application environments (Microsoft Cluster Server and Veritas Cluster Server) on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange 2007 continuous replication configurations local continuous replication (LCR) cluster continuous replication (CCR) and standby continuous replication (SCR) Exchange Server 2010 DAG functionality is also fully supported
Ease of managementIngeneralstoragemanagementcanbeadauntingtaskrequiringextensivestorageexperienceandspecializedtrainingThesearenolongerrequiredbecausetheXIVandXIVGen3StorageSystemsprovideahighlyintuitivegraphicaluserinterface(GUI)calledXIVStorageManagementInpracticeIBMXIVadministratorshaveprovisionedanddeliveredstorageresourcestotheirapplicationswithouttrainingorservicesfromIBMAless-experiencedstorageadministratorwithlittleornoXIVStorageSystemexperiencecanallocatestorageandmapvolumestohostsinlessthan15minutesStoragemanagementtaskstakelesstimeallowingstoragetobeutilizedfaster
Lower power consumptionTheXIVGen3isequippedwithhigh-capacitySAS-2disksSAS-2diskdrivescanprovidesignificantlybetterinvestmentvaluethanFibreChannel(FC)disksSAS-2disksalsoconsumelesspowerthanFCdisksSinceSAS-2diskdrivesaregenerallymuchhigherincapacitythanFCdiskswhileofferingincreasedperformanceversusXIVsecond-generationSerialATA(SATA)IIdisksatasimilarpricepointyourExchangeenvironmentmayrequirelessfloorspacefewerharddrivesandlesscoolingandpowerforagivencapacity
Point-in-time recovery with XIV snapshotsXIVfamilyinherentsnapshotcapabilitiesdelivernear-instantaneousreplicasoftheMicrosoftExchangeenvironmentThesnapshotcapabilitieswithintheIBMXIVStorageSystemSoftwareutilizeametadataredirect-on-writedesignthatallowssnapshotstooccurinasubsecondtimeframewithverylittleperformanceoverheadThousandsoffullordifferentialcopiescanbetakenAnyofthesnapshotscanbemadewritableandthensnapshotscanbetakenofthenewlywritablesnapshotsVolumescanevenberestoredfromthesewritablesnapshotsSnapshotsprovidetheabilitytobackupExchangedatabaseswithminimalimpacttoproductionserversandcanalsoprovideenhancedrecoveryoptionsthroughtheMicrosoftVSSframework
System Storage
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
Top five reasons to choose IBMMicrosoft Exchange environments experience dramatically improved performance and availability while improving total cost of ownership with IBM based on the following benefits
1 Microsoft skills IBM consultants through the Enterprise Services for Microsoft Technologies Practice services organization provide a full range of services for customers who have selected Microsoft technology to help them achieve maximum levels of performance and data protection for Microsoft Exchange environments
2 Proven solutions IBM leverages major Microsoft program initiatives using Microsoft Partner and Technology Adoption (TAP) programs including Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Programs (ESRP) and the Exchange Tested Solutions Program to test validate and qualify its storage solutions and furnishes IBM storage to various Microsoft labs and the Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) for internal and customer testing and proofs of concepts (POCs) IBM offers many complementary solutions for the Exchange environment including VSS-enabled backup and restore disaster recovery and archive solutions
3 Data protection For the enterprise IBM supports a wide variety of nondisruptive Exchange data protection solutions using Tivoli software including FastBack and FlashCopy Manager Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec Microsoft DPM and CommVault software
4 Joint collaboration Microsoft and IBM have been working together for over 25 years collaborating on joint initiatives and solutions IBM is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IBM System Storagereg and IBM System xreg hardware and software are used within Microsoft labs and IBM has dedicated resources at Microsoftrsquos Redmond campus
5 Helps to reduce costs IBM offers storage that performs among the industryrsquos lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions using storage system packaging and always-included functionality
What is the IBM advantage You get some of the best storage products technologies services and solutions for your Microsoft Exchange environment backed by proven expertise and flexible financing
Online near-instant snapshot backup and restore of critical business application data
Microsoft Exchange individual mailbox restore from a snapshot backupTivoliStorageFlashCopyManagerenablesindividualmailboxandmailitemrestoresofMicrosoftExchangeserversfromasnapshotbackupCapabilitiesprovidedbull Supportsingleormultipleusermailboxesbull Restoreselectablebasedonusernameanddateandtimespecification
Microsoft Exchange protectionbull SnapshotrestoreofMicrosoftExchangestoragegroupsbull File-copyrestoreofastoragegroupordatabasefromamountedsnapshotimage
IBM Corporation Integrated Marketing Communications Systems and Technology Group Route 100 Somers NY 10589
Produced in the United States October 2011 All Rights Reserved
1A very heavy user profile is defined as 048 IOPs for Exchange Server 2007 and 011 IOPs for Exchange Server 2010 and is approximately equivalent to a profile with 150 email receives 50 email sends per day with no deletions and an average email size of 50 KB The information in this document may be subject to change without notice Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the products features and services available in your area
All statements regarding IBM future directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only
IBM the IBM logo ibmcom FlashCopy Storage System Tivoli and XIV are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol (reg or trade) indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published A full list of US trademarks owned by IBM may be found at httpwwwibmcomlegalcopytradeshtml
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries
Microsoft Windows Windows NT and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both
TSS03061-USEN-02
For more information about IBM System Storage for Microsoft Exchange Environments contact your IBM representative or visit the following websites
Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions Whitepapers site httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-uslibrarygg513520aspx
IBM System Storage ISV solutions complementary storage solutions for Exchange httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragesolutionsisvisv_microsofthtml
IBM XIV Storage System httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragediskxivindexhtml
IBM XIV documents within the Techdocs technical library httpwww-03ibmcomsupporttechdocsatsmastrnsfWebDocsSearchampQuery=[HTMLDocumentName=WM]+AND+28XIV29ampStart=1ampCount=50ampSearchOrder=1ampSearchMax=10000
Microsoft ESRP v21 (Exchange Server 2007) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangebb412164aspx
Microsoft ESRP v30 (Exchange Server 2010) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangeff182054aspx
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
As businesses increase their reliance on email systems resilience in the face of unplanned outages becomes the requirement The IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems with proven grid architecture maintain availability and performance of Microsoft Exchange environments as these scheduled or unscheduled outages arise
IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System Higher performance for Exchange environmentsThe IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System carries on the XIV tradition by providing consistent high performance and high reliability with a low total cost of ownership XIV Gen3 uses the same software features as the previous generation and offers up to four times the performance using a high-speed InfiniBand internal interconnect load balancing and the power of all system resources innovative caching and high-performing CPUs combining to support higher performance XIV Gen3 offers up to 180 2 TB SAS hard disk drives up to 161 TB of usable capacity in a single frame up to 24 ports of 8 Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity up to 22 ports of 1 Gb iSCSI host connectivity and up to 360 GB of cache
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for Microsoft ExchangeComplement your solution with IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager which enables individual mailbox and mail item restores of Microsoft Exchange servers from a snapshot backup Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager utilizes storage snapshot capabilities to provide high-speed low-impact application data backup and restore functionality for application and storage environments Automated policy-based management of multiple snapshot backup versions together with a simple and guided installation and configuration process provide an easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy data protection solution that can help meet the most stringent Exchange recovery time requirements
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager also supports clustered application environments (Microsoft Cluster Server and Veritas Cluster Server) on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange 2007 continuous replication configurations local continuous replication (LCR) cluster continuous replication (CCR) and standby continuous replication (SCR) Exchange Server 2010 DAG functionality is also fully supported
Ease of managementIngeneralstoragemanagementcanbeadauntingtaskrequiringextensivestorageexperienceandspecializedtrainingThesearenolongerrequiredbecausetheXIVandXIVGen3StorageSystemsprovideahighlyintuitivegraphicaluserinterface(GUI)calledXIVStorageManagementInpracticeIBMXIVadministratorshaveprovisionedanddeliveredstorageresourcestotheirapplicationswithouttrainingorservicesfromIBMAless-experiencedstorageadministratorwithlittleornoXIVStorageSystemexperiencecanallocatestorageandmapvolumestohostsinlessthan15minutesStoragemanagementtaskstakelesstimeallowingstoragetobeutilizedfaster
Lower power consumptionTheXIVGen3isequippedwithhigh-capacitySAS-2disksSAS-2diskdrivescanprovidesignificantlybetterinvestmentvaluethanFibreChannel(FC)disksSAS-2disksalsoconsumelesspowerthanFCdisksSinceSAS-2diskdrivesaregenerallymuchhigherincapacitythanFCdiskswhileofferingincreasedperformanceversusXIVsecond-generationSerialATA(SATA)IIdisksatasimilarpricepointyourExchangeenvironmentmayrequirelessfloorspacefewerharddrivesandlesscoolingandpowerforagivencapacity
Point-in-time recovery with XIV snapshotsXIVfamilyinherentsnapshotcapabilitiesdelivernear-instantaneousreplicasoftheMicrosoftExchangeenvironmentThesnapshotcapabilitieswithintheIBMXIVStorageSystemSoftwareutilizeametadataredirect-on-writedesignthatallowssnapshotstooccurinasubsecondtimeframewithverylittleperformanceoverheadThousandsoffullordifferentialcopiescanbetakenAnyofthesnapshotscanbemadewritableandthensnapshotscanbetakenofthenewlywritablesnapshotsVolumescanevenberestoredfromthesewritablesnapshotsSnapshotsprovidetheabilitytobackupExchangedatabaseswithminimalimpacttoproductionserversandcanalsoprovideenhancedrecoveryoptionsthroughtheMicrosoftVSSframework
System Storage
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
Top five reasons to choose IBMMicrosoft Exchange environments experience dramatically improved performance and availability while improving total cost of ownership with IBM based on the following benefits
1 Microsoft skills IBM consultants through the Enterprise Services for Microsoft Technologies Practice services organization provide a full range of services for customers who have selected Microsoft technology to help them achieve maximum levels of performance and data protection for Microsoft Exchange environments
2 Proven solutions IBM leverages major Microsoft program initiatives using Microsoft Partner and Technology Adoption (TAP) programs including Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Programs (ESRP) and the Exchange Tested Solutions Program to test validate and qualify its storage solutions and furnishes IBM storage to various Microsoft labs and the Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) for internal and customer testing and proofs of concepts (POCs) IBM offers many complementary solutions for the Exchange environment including VSS-enabled backup and restore disaster recovery and archive solutions
3 Data protection For the enterprise IBM supports a wide variety of nondisruptive Exchange data protection solutions using Tivoli software including FastBack and FlashCopy Manager Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec Microsoft DPM and CommVault software
4 Joint collaboration Microsoft and IBM have been working together for over 25 years collaborating on joint initiatives and solutions IBM is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IBM System Storagereg and IBM System xreg hardware and software are used within Microsoft labs and IBM has dedicated resources at Microsoftrsquos Redmond campus
5 Helps to reduce costs IBM offers storage that performs among the industryrsquos lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions using storage system packaging and always-included functionality
What is the IBM advantage You get some of the best storage products technologies services and solutions for your Microsoft Exchange environment backed by proven expertise and flexible financing
Online near-instant snapshot backup and restore of critical business application data
Microsoft Exchange individual mailbox restore from a snapshot backupTivoliStorageFlashCopyManagerenablesindividualmailboxandmailitemrestoresofMicrosoftExchangeserversfromasnapshotbackupCapabilitiesprovidedbull Supportsingleormultipleusermailboxesbull Restoreselectablebasedonusernameanddateandtimespecification
Microsoft Exchange protectionbull SnapshotrestoreofMicrosoftExchangestoragegroupsbull File-copyrestoreofastoragegroupordatabasefromamountedsnapshotimage
IBM Corporation Integrated Marketing Communications Systems and Technology Group Route 100 Somers NY 10589
Produced in the United States October 2011 All Rights Reserved
1A very heavy user profile is defined as 048 IOPs for Exchange Server 2007 and 011 IOPs for Exchange Server 2010 and is approximately equivalent to a profile with 150 email receives 50 email sends per day with no deletions and an average email size of 50 KB The information in this document may be subject to change without notice Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the products features and services available in your area
All statements regarding IBM future directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only
IBM the IBM logo ibmcom FlashCopy Storage System Tivoli and XIV are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol (reg or trade) indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published A full list of US trademarks owned by IBM may be found at httpwwwibmcomlegalcopytradeshtml
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries
Microsoft Windows Windows NT and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both
TSS03061-USEN-02
For more information about IBM System Storage for Microsoft Exchange Environments contact your IBM representative or visit the following websites
Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions Whitepapers site httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-uslibrarygg513520aspx
IBM System Storage ISV solutions complementary storage solutions for Exchange httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragesolutionsisvisv_microsofthtml
IBM XIV Storage System httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragediskxivindexhtml
IBM XIV documents within the Techdocs technical library httpwww-03ibmcomsupporttechdocsatsmastrnsfWebDocsSearchampQuery=[HTMLDocumentName=WM]+AND+28XIV29ampStart=1ampCount=50ampSearchOrder=1ampSearchMax=10000
Microsoft ESRP v21 (Exchange Server 2007) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangebb412164aspx
Microsoft ESRP v30 (Exchange Server 2010) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangeff182054aspx
Solution BriefIBM Systems and Technology Group
Top five reasons to choose IBMMicrosoft Exchange environments experience dramatically improved performance and availability while improving total cost of ownership with IBM based on the following benefits
1 Microsoft skills IBM consultants through the Enterprise Services for Microsoft Technologies Practice services organization provide a full range of services for customers who have selected Microsoft technology to help them achieve maximum levels of performance and data protection for Microsoft Exchange environments
2 Proven solutions IBM leverages major Microsoft program initiatives using Microsoft Partner and Technology Adoption (TAP) programs including Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Programs (ESRP) and the Exchange Tested Solutions Program to test validate and qualify its storage solutions and furnishes IBM storage to various Microsoft labs and the Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) for internal and customer testing and proofs of concepts (POCs) IBM offers many complementary solutions for the Exchange environment including VSS-enabled backup and restore disaster recovery and archive solutions
3 Data protection For the enterprise IBM supports a wide variety of nondisruptive Exchange data protection solutions using Tivoli software including FastBack and FlashCopy Manager Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec Microsoft DPM and CommVault software
4 Joint collaboration Microsoft and IBM have been working together for over 25 years collaborating on joint initiatives and solutions IBM is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IBM System Storagereg and IBM System xreg hardware and software are used within Microsoft labs and IBM has dedicated resources at Microsoftrsquos Redmond campus
5 Helps to reduce costs IBM offers storage that performs among the industryrsquos lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions using storage system packaging and always-included functionality
What is the IBM advantage You get some of the best storage products technologies services and solutions for your Microsoft Exchange environment backed by proven expertise and flexible financing
Online near-instant snapshot backup and restore of critical business application data
Microsoft Exchange individual mailbox restore from a snapshot backupTivoliStorageFlashCopyManagerenablesindividualmailboxandmailitemrestoresofMicrosoftExchangeserversfromasnapshotbackupCapabilitiesprovidedbull Supportsingleormultipleusermailboxesbull Restoreselectablebasedonusernameanddateandtimespecification
Microsoft Exchange protectionbull SnapshotrestoreofMicrosoftExchangestoragegroupsbull File-copyrestoreofastoragegroupordatabasefromamountedsnapshotimage
IBM Corporation Integrated Marketing Communications Systems and Technology Group Route 100 Somers NY 10589
Produced in the United States October 2011 All Rights Reserved
1A very heavy user profile is defined as 048 IOPs for Exchange Server 2007 and 011 IOPs for Exchange Server 2010 and is approximately equivalent to a profile with 150 email receives 50 email sends per day with no deletions and an average email size of 50 KB The information in this document may be subject to change without notice Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the products features and services available in your area
All statements regarding IBM future directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only
IBM the IBM logo ibmcom FlashCopy Storage System Tivoli and XIV are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol (reg or trade) indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published A full list of US trademarks owned by IBM may be found at httpwwwibmcomlegalcopytradeshtml
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries
Microsoft Windows Windows NT and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both
TSS03061-USEN-02
For more information about IBM System Storage for Microsoft Exchange Environments contact your IBM representative or visit the following websites
Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions Whitepapers site httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-uslibrarygg513520aspx
IBM System Storage ISV solutions complementary storage solutions for Exchange httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragesolutionsisvisv_microsofthtml
IBM XIV Storage System httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragediskxivindexhtml
IBM XIV documents within the Techdocs technical library httpwww-03ibmcomsupporttechdocsatsmastrnsfWebDocsSearchampQuery=[HTMLDocumentName=WM]+AND+28XIV29ampStart=1ampCount=50ampSearchOrder=1ampSearchMax=10000
Microsoft ESRP v21 (Exchange Server 2007) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangebb412164aspx
Microsoft ESRP v30 (Exchange Server 2010) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangeff182054aspx
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IBM Corporation Integrated Marketing Communications Systems and Technology Group Route 100 Somers NY 10589
Produced in the United States October 2011 All Rights Reserved
1A very heavy user profile is defined as 048 IOPs for Exchange Server 2007 and 011 IOPs for Exchange Server 2010 and is approximately equivalent to a profile with 150 email receives 50 email sends per day with no deletions and an average email size of 50 KB The information in this document may be subject to change without notice Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the products features and services available in your area
All statements regarding IBM future directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only
IBM the IBM logo ibmcom FlashCopy Storage System Tivoli and XIV are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol (reg or trade) indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published A full list of US trademarks owned by IBM may be found at httpwwwibmcomlegalcopytradeshtml
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries
Microsoft Windows Windows NT and the Windows logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both
TSS03061-USEN-02
For more information about IBM System Storage for Microsoft Exchange Environments contact your IBM representative or visit the following websites
Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions Whitepapers site httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-uslibrarygg513520aspx
IBM System Storage ISV solutions complementary storage solutions for Exchange httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragesolutionsisvisv_microsofthtml
IBM XIV Storage System httpwww-03ibmcomsystemsstoragediskxivindexhtml
IBM XIV documents within the Techdocs technical library httpwww-03ibmcomsupporttechdocsatsmastrnsfWebDocsSearchampQuery=[HTMLDocumentName=WM]+AND+28XIV29ampStart=1ampCount=50ampSearchOrder=1ampSearchMax=10000
Microsoft ESRP v21 (Exchange Server 2007) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangebb412164aspx
Microsoft ESRP v30 (Exchange Server 2010) httptechnetmicrosoftcomen-usexchangeff182054aspx
