"IBM eliminates backup and recovery issues of Microsoft Exchange by using DS4000 Storage Manager software's Flashcopy and Volume copy features, combined with Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)."

IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Solution for Exchange

Snapshots (FlashCopy) are taken through Microsoft VSS to ensure high fidelity backups. The Exchange application stay available during the entire backup process. A tiered environment is setup to place backup firstly, on disks and secondly, migrated to tapes for safe-keeping.

"...SERIAL ATA IS NATURAL FOR DISK-TO-DISK BACKUP APPLICATIONS."**

"...PEOPLE ARE NOW BEGINNING TO GET THE IDEA THAT DISK-BASED BACKUP IS A GOOD IDEA"***

 

Architecture Overview

Key Benefits

IBM Eliminates backup and recovery issue of Microsoft Exchange by using DS4000 Storage Manager software's snapshot and full volume copy features. Powerful open-system storage controllers, SATA and/or Fiber Channel drive enclosures with Microsoft VSS provide the following benefits:

Continuous Exchange availability, which in turn provider higher productivity:

• Backup and restore Exchange email stores without interruption
• No need to take Exchange offline for backup operations

Fastest, most confident way to recover Exchange from system error/disasters:

• Using VSS and snapshot provides server-free backup
• Using SATA arrays for backing up, ensure significantly faster backup and restore process

More reliable and efficient backup and recovery leads to higher productivity; lower administration costs.

Enable better adherence to compliance requirements:

• Faster, more reliable access to email massage store
• Predictable, reliable access to email massage store

Increases data protection for Exchange:

• Provides ability to backup open files
• Confident Exchange restore via VSS
• Using SATA as part of D2D backup strategy increases speed of backup and restore operations-especially true for small files

Protects current investment:

• Protects investment in backup environment
• Allows for full adoption of tiered storage/information lifecycle management strategies

Solution details

• IBM Disk System (DS) Series
• IBM SAN Fiber Channel Switch
• IBM Tape Solutions
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager ( optional)
• VERITAS NetBackup (optional)

* This solution works with any Intel/AMD servers

** Additional software & services are available for compliance requirement

*** For further details, please contact IBM