Virtualized Exchange 2010 DR Solution with SRM/SRDF/RM

The VMware virtualized MS Exchange 2010 allows scaling the messaging environment in a cost-effective and flexible manner by combining EMC's Virtual Provisioning technology for storage, EMC Replication Manager for local backup and recovery, VMware VMHA for HA, and VMWare SRM and EMC SRDF for DR.

- Users can achieve a 4:1 server consolidation ratio by incorporating VMware vSphere as the server virtualization platform

- Wtih EMC Virtual Provisioning, customer purchase only the storage required for initial mailbox size, and more storage can be added as user mailboxes grow.

- VMware HA provide easy-to-use, cost-effective,high availability for messaging systems.

- VMware SRM and EMC SRDF provides for a single push button solution to counter site failure.

- With EMC Replication Manager, users can gain a very small backup window regardless of the DB size with little impact on the production servers.

The white paper 'H8151-Virtualized Exchange 2010 Disaster Recovery Enabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAX and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager' is a good reference!