SnapManager for Exchange

(2003/2007): a comprehensive data management solution that streamlines storage management while simplifying configuration, backup, and restore operations for Exchange databases. The powerful combination of SnapManager for Exchange and Single Mailbox Recovery functionality enables fast, accurate, cost-effective backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange data.

The Challenge:

Ensure High Exchange Availability While Reducing Costs

Microsoft Exchange has become a mission-critical application—studies show that a majority of business-critical information resides in message stores and that the typical Exchange end user spends a significant part of the workday in the Exchange environment. IT administrators are challenged to meet stringent Exchange availability service-level agreements (SLAs) while managing a proliferation of Exchange servers and identifying ways to reduce overall administration and management costs.

The Solution:

NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange

NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange is a comprehensive data management solution that streamlines storage management while simplifying configuration, backup, and restore operations for Exchange databases. Deployed in combination with NetApp storage systems, SnapManager software provides near-instantaneous hot backups and rapid restores to deliver an industry-leading  combination of availability, scalability, performance,
and reliability for Exchange environments.

Maximize Excha nge Availability with Near -Insta nta neo us Ba ckup and Recover y SnapManager software simplifies Exchange data protection by automating processes to provide hands-off, worryfree data management. It enables you to schedule and automate Exchange database backups, use policy-based backup retention management, and simplify the  migration of existing databases to NetApp storage systems. SnapManager also delivers built-in high availability, with features that allow you to expand Exchange databases online. It also offers tight integration with Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and Multipath I/O (MPIO) and with the NetApp Clustered Failover option and SnapMirror for simplified disaster recovery implementation. In addition, SnapManager has built-in capabilities for nondisruptive, automated backup verification, with three user- configurable verification modes: autoverification, delayed verification, and no verification. You can also offload verification of backup to other nonproduction hosts.

Minimize Planned Dow ntime with On-the -Fly Scalability

NetApp storage systems with SnapManager enable on-the-fly scalability, allowing you to easily add storage and expand volumes to keep pace with your company’s growing storage needs without taking Exchange or NetApp storage systems offline. Reduce the Com plexity of Exchange Storage SnapManager delivers consistent online backup of Exchange databases, performing full online backups that require only incremental storage space. You can store up to 255 online copies of Exchange database backups. SnapManager also offers standards-based integration with tape backup products.SnapManager is tightly integrated with Microsoft Exchange using Microsoft standard interfaces. In the Windows® 2003 environment, SnapManager utilizes the Microsoft VSS Infrastructure, and in the Windows 2000 environment, it integrates with the Exchange Backup APIs. With SnapManager, you can rapidly  recover Exchange databases. You can choose the point in time you want to recover to, up to the minute. SnapManager gives you the ability to try different points of recovery within a single restore operation. Depending on the nature of your restore requirement, you can also choose from a wide range of restore options: full Exchange Server content recovery, individual Exchange storage group recovery, individual Exchange database recovery, and virtual disk recovery. You can even perform individual mailbox recovery with the NetApp Single Mailbox Recovery addon to SnapManager. SnapManager makes it easy to restore Exchange databases to any server of choice. This helps at the time of disaster recovery and facilitates testing of the snapshot restore procedure before an actual need occurs. data files.More

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