Bijaoui / Hasslauer Designing Storage for Exchange 2007 SP1

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-08-056003-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten

Reihe: Digital Press

This book will help you understand the new choices and possibilities available in designing your storage environment for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1. The move of Microsoft Exchange Server from a 32-bit application to the 64-bit world reduced the I/O footprint on the storage subsystem. This allows users to consider shared storage deployments or go the opposite way and focus on direct attached storage. Supporting large mailboxes is now possible, but how do you back up and recover the increased amount of data? Exchange Server 2007 Continuous Replication and new features in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering provides interesting possibilities for geographically dispersed deployments. This book explains these new built-in features of Exchange Server 2007 and compares them with application independent data replication solutions provided by high-end storage subsystems. It is critical to understand these key technologies to make the right decision which storage solution best fits your business needs. The authors share their experience from large scale deployments and depict configurations used during their projects.
•Includes a description of how the move to a 64-bit application reduced the I/O behavior
•Storage hardware technologies and Windows storage stack features for Exchange servers
•Exchange Server 2007 Continuous Replication and Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
•Performance monitoring and analysis to optimize the Exchange Server 2007 configuration

Pierre Bijaoui is a Solution Architect for HP Services, based in Sophia Antipolis, France. He is often involved with large customer deployments, dealing with data center and storage architectures and technologies and Windows performance tuning and optimization. Pierre has been a tutor of the unanimously acclaimed Exchange Academy program at HP since its inception and was specialized in mobility, server and storage design and performance aspects of Microsoft Exchange. Pierre is a Microsoft Certified Architect (Infrastructure). In December 2001, he published a book, Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000: Create and Optimize High-Performance Exchange Messaging Systems, (Digital Press), updated in November 2006 for Exchange 2003 SP2.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bijaoui, Pierre

Hasslauer, Juergen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Designing Storage for Exchange 2007 SP1;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Contents;8
5;Foreword;10
6;Acknowledgments;12
7;Chapter 1 Introduction to Exchange 2007 Storage;16
7.1;Where to Start?;16
7.2;Exchange 2007 Server Roles and Usage of Storage;20
7.3;Capacity Considerations;30
7.4;Performance Considerations;32
7.5;Challenges and Opportunities;34
7.6;Top 10 Topics for Exchange 2007 Storage;47
8;Chapter 2 Basic Concepts of I/O Systems;54
8.1;Start with Basics;54
8.2;Anatomy of a Storage Controller;61
8.3;Virtualization;84
8.4;Storage + Network = Storage Networks;85
8.5;In Summary;87
9;Chapter 3 Storage Technology;90
9.1;Leveraging Storage Technologies;90
9.2;Disk Technology;93
9.3;Direct-Attached Storage;98
9.4;Storage Area Networks;104
9.5;Tape Systems;121
9.6;In Summary;130
10;Chapter 4 Windows Storage;132
10.1;Virtual Disk Service and Volume Shadow Copy Services;133
10.2;Storport;135
10.3;Multi Path I/O;137
10.4;Windows Server 2008 Storage Explorer;141
10.5;Basic versus Dynamic Disks;142
10.6;Partition Style: MBR versus GPT;144
10.7;Disk Alignment;145
10.8;New Technology File System;147
10.9;Online Volume Expansion and Shrinking;151
11;Chapter 5 Designing Your Exchange 2007 Server;154
11.1;Service Level Agreements/Service Level Objectives;155
11.2;Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program;156
11.3;User Profiles;157
11.4;CPU Sizing;159
11.5;Memory Sizing;161
11.6;Storage Considerations for Server Roles;165
11.7;Exchange Server Sizing Tools;179
11.8;Dealing with SAN Administrators;182
11.9;SAN Boot Versus Local Boot;183
11.10;Blades Versus Conventional Rack Mount Servers;191
11.11;Virtualization;194
11.12;High Availability Options for Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server;198
12;Chapter 6 Exchange Server 2007 Failover Clustering;204
12.1;Introduction to Windows Failover Clustering;204
12.2;Exchange Server 2007 Clustered Mailbox Servers;235
12.3;Pros and Cons for Exchange Clusters;256
13;Chapter 7 Data Replication Solutions for Exchange;258
13.1;Host- and Storage-Based Data Replication Solutions;259
13.2;Exchange Server 2007 Continuous Replication;265
13.3;Local Continuous Replication;298
13.4;Cluster Continuous Replication;302
13.5;Standby Continuous Replication;307
13.6;Network Bandwidth and Latency Requirements for CCR and SCR;328
13.7;Comparison of SCC/LCR/CCR/SCR;330
14;Chapter 8 Backup;334
14.1;Important Terms;334
14.2;Why Do You Run Backups?;335
14.3;What Data Do You Have to Back Up?;336
14.4;Tape Rotation and Offsite Vaulting;337
14.5;Introduction to Volume Shadow Copy Services;354
14.6;VSS and Continuous Replication;366
14.7;Data Protection Manager;376
14.8;Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2008;387
15;Chapter 9 Recovery;392
15.1;Basic Recovery Rules;392
15.2;Disaster Recovery Tools;393
15.3;Brick Level Restore;393
15.4;Recovery Storage Group;396
15.5;Database Portability;407
15.6;Dial Tone Portability;416
15.7;Server Recovery;429
16;Chapter 10 Storage Design Validation;440
16.1;The Risk of Running Tests in a Production Environment;441
16.2;Disk Exercisers;442
16.3;Microsoft Exchange Server JetStress;449
16.4;Microsoft Exchange Load Generator;459
17;Chapter 11 Performance Monitoring and Analysis;486
17.1;Description;486
17.2;Performance Monitor in Windows Server;490
17.3;What Should you Monitor in Your Microsoft Exchange Storage?;494
17.4;Storage Utilization;503
17.5;Reporting Performance Results;513
17.6;In Summary;516
18;Chapter 12 Best Practices and Sample Configurations;518
18.1;Key Attributes;518
18.2;Tools;519
18.3;DAS Design: The Microsoft IT Case;519
18.4;SAN: Large Enterprise with Consolidated Deployment (>50,000 Mailboxes);524
18.5;SAN: Mission-Critical Email;526
18.6;SAN: Ruthless Standardization;531
18.7;IP SAN: Using iSCSI for Midrange Servers;534
18.8;ESRP: Microsoft's Exchange Storage Reviewed Program;538
18.9;HP: Storage Solutions and Active Answers;540
18.10;In Summary;542
19;Index;546
19.1;A;546
19.2;B;546
19.3;C;546
19.4;D;547
19.5;E;548
19.6;F;549
19.7;G;549
19.8;H;549
19.9;I;549
19.10;J;549
19.11;K;549
19.12;L;549
19.13;M;550
19.14;N;551
19.15;O;551
19.16;P;551
19.17;Q;551
19.18;R;551
19.19;S;552
19.20;T;553
19.21;U;553
19.22;V;553
19.23;W;553