Solution Description - American Megatrends StorTrends 3200i Install Manual

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Starting Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft has come up with several new

tools and technologies catered towards empowering iSCSI and Storage

Consolidation. These include:

VSS: Transportable shadow copy for data protection and recoverability

VDS (Simple SAN Initiative): Aimed towards ease of manageability

Microsoft iSCSI initiator: This enables block over IP.

DPM: For backup and DR

SAN Boot (Win boot/i): For server consolidation and blade servers.

Clustering over iSCSI: Aimed at high availability and redundancy

MPIO: For performance, and transport redundancy.

The StorTrends 3200i delivers tiered storage that allows customers to

provide the right level of performance to the right applications. The

combination of StorTrends iTX data storage software and StorTrends storage

appliances encompass a powerful solution to address the main issues facing

SMBs and enterprises today, such as continual, exploding data growth and

the general transition away from Direct Attached Storage (DAS). In addition,

StorTrends products are easy to implement and maintain, and offer

excellent TOC (Total Operating Cost) in comparison with Fibre Channel and

other IP-Storage solutions currently in the market.

AMI‟s StorTrends delivers and interoperates with all the above technologies

of Microsoft and this document describes an approach that can be used to

configure Exchange Solutions around AMI‟s StorTrends IP-SAN series (1300i,

2200i, 3200i) storage systems.

The performance results and best practices discussed in this document

provide tested guidelines for configuring the StorTrends 3200i for a high-

performance Exchange environment. For this solution, a Stortrends 3200i

storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server was used and configured for

600 Exchange 2007 users.