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E-mail/Messaging

Many organizations depend on e-mail to conduct business operations. E-mail databases 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 messaging administrators’ challenges. With an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN you can consolidate your messaging application data for simpler management, lower costs, easy scalability, and better protection.

Empower Messaging Application Administrators with an Easy-to-Use, Comprehensive, High Performing Solution

Significant time savings for administrators
EqualLogic’s intelligent iSCSI arrays are optimized for ease of use and simplified management. Virtualization and automatic load balancing of e-mail data result in faster overall management, while built-in redundancy, hot swap service, snapshots, and auto-replication eliminate downtime.

Higher performance for high I/O messaging applications
Maximum performance is provided automatically – EqualLogic arrays continuously self-optimize as data changes and storage is expanded. EqualLogic volumes are provisioned as a single, scalable pool of storage that leverages all storage resources within the SAN. Adding additional PS Series arrays scales out performance linearly to support increasingly number of messaging users in an easy to manage and affordable way.

Seamless mail store expansion to accommodate growth
Storage volumes must grow as mail stores, mailbox sizes, and user numbers grow. As messaging data grows, EqualLogic’s volumes grow online. In addition to instant volume expansion, more physical storage can be non-disruptively added to your SAN, increasing capacity and performance with EqualLogic’s online load balancing. With EqualLogic advanced thin provisioning, e-mail volumes can be preset to a specific size at volume creation. Physical storage is then automatically allocated from the free storage pool as the e-mail store grows in size. The benefits are simpler management of e-mail volumes, more efficient use of physical storage resources, and the realization of seamless “buy as you grow” storage purchasing.

E-mail backup and recovery
With EqualLogic’s built-in snapshot capabilities, clean snapshots of mail stores and logs can be taken instantly and automatically. Any size environment, as well as multi-server deployments, can be instantly reset to a previous snapshot to resume your messaging application from a clean starting point; users don’t wait for data to be physically moved or copied. Snapshots can also be mounted as recovery storage groups for easy mailbox and message recovery. EqualLogic’s built in auto-replication capability enables internally consistent remote copies of messaging data and SAN boot disks. EqualLogic is fully certified and compatible with leading backup and disaster recovery solutions including applications from Asigra, CommVault Systems, Computer Associates, EMC/Legato, FilesX, Microsoft (including DPM), Mimosa, Spectra Logic, Sonasoft, Symantec, and TimeSpring.solutions including applications from Asigra, CommVault Systems, Computer Associates, EMC/Legato, FilesX, Microsoft (including DPM), Mimosa, Spectra Logic, Sonasoft, Symantec, and TimeSpring.

Online optimization of service level and costs
EqualLogic's tiering and pooling capabilities provide automatic or administrator-directed tiering of mail stores and logs. This enables messaging administrators to assign different storage tiers to offer varying levels of storage performance to users. When service level requirements change, messaging administrators can easily move e-mail volumes, as well as other application data, to a new service tier without downtime or disruption. Learn more about EqualLogic solutions for Microsoft Exchange