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Enterprise Messaging Made Agile, Simple, Efficient
+ UCS
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Cisco’s Microsoft Datacenter Portfolio
Compute Network Storage
UCS Nexus 1000 Partnerships
Management Virtualization Architectures (CVD)
PowerShell
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Adapt to New Delivery Models
Achieve High-Availability
Avoid Added Complexity
Enterprise Messaging:A Mission-Critical Service
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MicrosoftExchange 2010
Efficient
Agile
Sim
ple
Quality
ResourcesTime
Meet Today’s Messaging Challenges
Agile:• Streamline the move to a next-
generation data center and messaging platform
• Allow for extreme scalability for thousands of mailboxes as business requirements change
Efficient:• Enable the holistic management of the messaging infrastructure from the software
through to the bare metal
• Provide key capabilities designed to improve performance and availability and reduce costs
Simple:• Cisco Validated Designs provide a
certified, tested starting point for Microsoft Exchange deployments
• Turn to a comprehensive data center platform that supports physical or virtual infrastructures, or public or private cloud environment
Exchange 2010 on Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS)
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Maintain a High Level of Agility• Quickly and easily add one mailbox
or thousands
• Configure additional Cisco UCS servers in minutes
Cisco UCS Service Profiles• Reduce migration time, decrease
likelihood of errors that lead to
application downtime, and increase
compliance of the infrastructure
• Ensure consistent server
configurations for all Microsoft
Exchange and Hyper-V server roles
AgileAchieve Better Business Responsiveness
Streamlined Migration
Extreme Scalability
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A Single, Cohesive Management System
• Supports wide range of infrastructure needs across multiple data centers, infrastructures, and even hosting service providers
• Controls the server, storage, and network infrastructure through a single, cohesive management system
Lower Risk
• Making a move to Exchange 2010 on Cisco UCS is easier and less risky.
• Provides confidence via a tested and validated reference architecture for Microsoft Exchange 2010
SimpleEliminate Unnecessary Complexity
Cisco Validated Designs Unified Platform
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Cisco UCS with Microsoft
Hyper-V
Designed to be fully
redundant
EfficientExecute Tasks Without Wasted Time, Resources or Diminished Performance
Extended memory
technology
Choose your storage system
Increased memory capacity
No Single Point of Failure
Virtualization Automation
Lower Storage Access Expense
Improved Consolidation
Ratios
Increased I/O Performance
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Cisco UCS is designed to protect and speed data between servers and storage, with network
isolation for physical and virtual servers
• Out-of-the-box email archiving - provides tools to preserve email data invisibly to users and IT staff
• Define, deploy, and automate - the retention and archiving of email with the new retention policy framework
• Simplified e-discovery process, protection and compliance – now easier than ever with the new legal-hold policy
Keep it simple and secure
Facilitate and AutomateProtection and Compliance of All Email Data
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Access at Any Time, from Any DeviceRealize the Exchange 2010 Advantage With Cisco UCS
Multiple Access Features Made Easy
Cisco’s virtualization-aware unified fabric:
• Securely transports all network and storage traffic
• Maintains isolation between traffic flows, visibility, and control even in virtualized environments
• Beyond the system, data flows quickly to user devices across enterprise networks and WANs
Uncompromised reliability and availability through
every layer by eliminating points of failure and
automating functions to avoid errors that can
cause downtime
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Reduced RiskCisco Validated Designs for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Speed Migration And Reduce Risk
• Obtain detailed guidance for how to create the best data center design for the solution, configuring the server, operating system or hypervisor, network, storage, and application-level services required, enabling rapid time-to-value for the solution
• Increase resource utilization, reduce capital costs, and improve reliability when using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V as the foundation
• Simply add one or more blade servers to the prewired infrastructure when more mailbox servers are required
• Configure new servers in minutes - use the same services profiles already in use and install the software
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Challenge• Replace aging server equipment and grow capacity
• Reduce energy and footprint of servers in at-capacity data center
• Improve manageability and control of virtualized environment
Solution• Deploy Cisco UCS to support mission-critical systems
including Active Directory, web servers, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL databases, Windows clustering, file storage servers, and application servers that host various applications
Results• Increased capacity significantly
while reducing data center energy and cooling requirements
• Eliminated 75 additional, disparate physical servers throughout campus
• Improved manageability of infrastructure
• Accelerated provisioning of new servers “Elon University has truly become a 24x7 institution and we’ve created a state-of-the-art data center that supports that now as we continue to grow”
Tony RoseAssistant Direct for IS & T For systems Administration, Elon University
Elon UniversityMicrosoft Exchange Server on Cisco UCS in the Real World
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Challenge• Increase data center flexibility to support information delivery goals
• Support 1600 users with four technicians
• Applications include:• Meditech, BMH’s primary clinical application
• Picture archiving and communication system (PACS)
• Physician office electronic medical record (EMR) system
• Microsoft Exchange and productivity applications
• Increase infrastructure redundancy
Solution• Cisco UCS B250 M1 Extended
• Memory Blade Servers with Intel
• Xeon 5600 Series processors
• Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade
• Servers with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors
• Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
• Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Director
Results• Virtualized desktops to securely deliver patient information
everywhere needed
• Simplified caregiver login and roaming through single sign-in
• Greatly reduced infrastructure management time and complexity
• Created virtual test environment to support software migration and testing
“Even if users do not notice a difference, the virtualized environment gives my team much greater agility. We can back them up better, provide more portability in their workflow, and make the technology more invisible to them.”
Edward RicksCIO & VP Information Services
Beaufort Memorial HospitalAchieving Greater Agility and Productivity
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State of Alaska
• State and local government
• 24,400 employees
• Headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska
• Population of 722,718
• Largest state in the United States by area
• Cisco data center customer since 2010
Customer stats
Challenge• Delays in delivering information technology services to end-users
• Different departmental standards and procedures
• Overall operational inefficiencies and lack of unified teams within data center
Why cisco data center solutions• Update the data center platform to more quickly provide services
• Cisco UCS simplifies data center operations and supports cloud computing
Benefits• Enabled Alaska to provide hosted services to agencies and
organizations statewide
• Increased IT department productivity by streamlining operations
• Increased speed of infrastructure deployment, enabling the State to provide services faster than ever before
• Reduced hardware purchases and power and cooling costs
Cisco Data Center Environment
• FlexPod
• Cisco Unified Computing System
• VMware
• NetApp
• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and Blade Chassis
• Cisco UCS 6140 Series Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco Nexus 7010
• Cisco WAN
• Partner: World Wide Technology
“We are seeing significant cost savings in the hardware and data center space, due to a reduction in the number of server chassis and required cabling.”
– Corey Kos, Enterprise Architect
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Deliver the Next-Generation Messaging Solution
Quickly
• Decreased time to provision new server resources from 5 days to 20 minutes
• Reduced time spent managing physical servers by 80 percent
- National FFA Org.
Cost-effectively
• Reduced operating costs by US$475,000 within six months of deployment
• Slashed network outages, for cost savings of $100,000 per month
- Seven Corners Inc.
And with minimal risk
• Provision cloud based services in less than 24 hours
• High level security for cloud based services
- Radiant Communications
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Agile. Simple. Efficient.
• Investigate the possibilities: www.cisco.com (search for Microsoft Exchange 2010)
• Discover the solutions: www.cisco.com/go/microsoft
• Realize the true benefits: www.cisco.com/go/systemcenterforucs
Cisco UCS for Microsoft Exchange
Thank you.