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Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007

Microsoft Exchange Server is the most popular messaging system in the world. In fact, Exchange now constitutes the major application that most companies manage on behalf of their employees. From an IT perspective, Exchange has grown from a sophisticated email application into a central repository for many kinds of data, and the storage it consumes has grown along with it. Today's mission-critical Exchange systems mandate that data be protected from a wide variety of failure scenarios.

An iSCSI SAN from LeftHand Networks is the best storage option for an Exchange environment, because:
  • A LeftHand SAN is easy to manage.  There is no specific array management or storage networking expertise required.
  • A LeftHand SAN is flexible.  As your Exchange environment changes or grows, you can easily grow your SAN with no downtime. Automation lowers the risk of costly administrative errors.
  • You won't outgrow your storage environment.  Your iSCSI SAN will scale to any size Exchange environment on-the-fly. No expensive “fork lift” upgrades – ever.
  • You'll keep costs down.  The SAN is highly optimized for random read / write IOPS – the kind of I/O patterns found with Exchange. This ensures that you will get the most performance possible from a set of disks, and minimizing your costs per IOPS for the system.
  • Additional data protection and high availability features are built-in.  Apply these features as needed for specific Storage Groups, without downtime.
  • You can protect your data from disaster.  A highly available LeftHand SAN will survive virtually any set of component failures and keep on running with no impact to Exchange users.