Designing seamless Microsoft Exchange deployments across data centers
Date
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10/1/2010
Messaging applications have become a critical part of enterprise operations. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 incorporates multiple features designed to increase availability and enhance management in these environments—helping to maximize uptime while simplifying deployment, administration, and capacity sizing for IT administrators.
F5® BIG-IP® application delivery controllers support a range of Exchange server roles, and can provide a variety of benefits depending on the specific deployment and configuration. F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module™ (WOM) technology can accelerate and encrypt Exchange database availability group (DAG) replication traffic over a wide area network (WAN). F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) systems provide load balancing and failover across data centers, automatically updating Domain Name System (DNS) information based on application health, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) systems provide application delivery and load balancing within data centers. And the F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM) Web application firewall, which runs on BIG-IP systems alongside LTM and other modules, can help protect Exchange Web services from attack.
Combining Dell™ servers and storage, F5 BIG-IP application delivery controllers, and Exchange Server 2010 can help organizations create high-performance, highly available enterprise messaging infrastructures. Dell Services can also work directly with organizations to identify appropriate architectures that can meet the specific needs of their environment while helping simplify deployment and ongoing management. Through this type of design, organizations can create integrated multi-data-center messaging environments while supporting site-to-site failover, simplified disaster recovery, high levels of security, and enhanced performance.
F5® BIG-IP® application delivery controllers support a range of Exchange server roles, and can provide a variety of benefits depending on the specific deployment and configuration. F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module™ (WOM) technology can accelerate and encrypt Exchange database availability group (DAG) replication traffic over a wide area network (WAN). F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) systems provide load balancing and failover across data centers, automatically updating Domain Name System (DNS) information based on application health, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) systems provide application delivery and load balancing within data centers. And the F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM) Web application firewall, which runs on BIG-IP systems alongside LTM and other modules, can help protect Exchange Web services from attack.
Combining Dell™ servers and storage, F5 BIG-IP application delivery controllers, and Exchange Server 2010 can help organizations create high-performance, highly available enterprise messaging infrastructures. Dell Services can also work directly with organizations to identify appropriate architectures that can meet the specific needs of their environment while helping simplify deployment and ongoing management. Through this type of design, organizations can create integrated multi-data-center messaging environments while supporting site-to-site failover, simplified disaster recovery, high levels of security, and enhanced performance.