NetApp Case Study Sample

The combination of VMware and NetApp technologies with Exchange 2007 has been a real win for us. Virtualizing our Exchange environment gives us greater reliability and flexibility with good performance. VMotion lets us move virtual machines easily for maintenance or other needs. DRS makes sure that Exchange servers are always properly resourced. VMware HA makes sure that Exchange and other important services get restarted right away should an entire ESX server fail.

NetApp storage is a good match for the capabilities of VMware, offering greater reliability at a lower cost than mirroring. We haven’t yet implemented all of the NetApp capabilities I’ve described above in our environment, but having a range of options will give us flexibility to meet our needs. We intend to look seriously at implementing VMware SRM using NetApp SnapMirror in late 2008 to provide greater protection for both our Exchange and Citrix environments.