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Upgrade to the Best Platform for Microsoft Exchange

Run Exchange on VMware Infrastructure to maximize availability and protect against costly and disruptive email outages, increase infrastructure performance by 100% and reduce server footprint by up to 90%, scale dynamically to adapt to changing workloads, and expedite testing and provisioning. VMware Infrastructure is a dynamic, service-oriented platform that is officially supported by Microsoft and ideally suited to running Microsoft Exchange. Upgrade to VMware Infrastructure and free Exchange from the constraints of static physical infrastructure to:

  • Maximize availability without the complexity of Microsoft clustering
  • Increase the capacity of Exchange servers by 100%
  • Scale dynamically to support increasing load and eliminate sizing compromises
  • Expedite management tasks such as testing and provisioning
  • Reduce your infrastructure footprint and costs by up to 90%

Upgrade to a More Dynamic Platform

Maximize Exchange availability without the complexity of Microsoft Clustering. Leverage the Application vServices built into VMware Infrastructure to provide simple and cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery for all Exchange server roles without dedicated standby servers. Alternatively, use Application vServices in conjunction with Microsoft Clustering to double your protection and provide best-in-class availability.

Scale Exchange dynamically to support increasing loads, eliminate sizing headaches, and reduce overprovisioning. Start with small memory and CPU configurations and gradually expand capacity to support growing load by increasing virtual machine size or migrating with VMotion to larger hosts.

Expedite Exchange management tasks and accelerate lifecycle. Provision new Exchange instances from virtual machine templates in just minutes. Use VMware snapshots and clones to reproduce your Exchange environment in the lab for testing and troubleshooting. Keep a complete, cost-efficient test version of your Exchange deployment in the lab.

Reduce infrastructure footprint by up to 90%. Consolidate multiple Exchange server roles onto shared physical servers. Eliminate the need to deploy dedicated hosts for each server role and dedicated standby hosts for failover.

Achieve Breakthrough Performance

Leverage the highly scalable IO capabilities of VMware Infrastructure and the improved IO architecture of Exchange 2007 to achieve excellent performance of Exchange on VMware.

Double the number of mailboxes supported per physical host from 8,000 to 16,000 heavy mailbox users. Scale out the Exchange Mailbox Server in multiple mailboxes per host to double the performance and utilization of large multicore servers.

Enjoy Full Microsoft Support

Microsoft officially supports VMware ESX for running Microsoft Windows and major applications including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server. VMware ESX was the first hypervisor to be validated under the Microsoft Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP), providing customers who run Windows Server and Microsoft applications with cooperative support from Microsoft and VMware. Customers can now run Exchange on VMware with the peace of mind that they will receive the support they need.

New Microsoft licensing enables efficient use of VMotion. Microsoft licensing has recently been modified to allow customers to reassign licenses between physical servers as frequently as desired. This new licensing flexibility enables efficient use of VMotion for Windows Server and major applications including Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server.

Next Steps

See how VMware helps you provide simple and cost-effective high availability and accelerate your Exchange lifecycle.