This book will help you understand the new choices and possibilities available in designing your storage environment for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1. The move of Microsoft Exchange Server from a 32-bit application to the 64-bit world reduced the I/O footprint on the storage subsystem. This allows users to consider shared storage deployments or go the opposite way and focus on direct attached storage. Supporting large mailboxes is now possible, but how do you back up and recover the increased amount of data? Exchange Server 2007 Continuous Replication and new features in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering provides interesting possibilities for geographically dispersed deployments. This book explains these new built-in features of Exchange Server 2007 and compares them with application independent data replication solutions provided by high-end storage subsystems. It is critical to understand these key technologies to make the right decision which storage solution best fits your business needs. The authors share their experience from large scale deployments and depict configurations used during their projects.
-Includes a description of how the move to a 64-bit application reduced the I/O behavior
-Storage hardware technologies and Windows storage stack features for Exchange servers
-Exchange Server 2007 Continuous Replication and Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
-Performance monitoring and analysis to optimize the Exchange Server 2007 configuration

Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server is the server component that provides electronic messaging in major corporate environments. It has had two updates since its release in 2003, SP1 and SP2. The author covers these along with critical changes in Widows 2003 Server such as the scalability features of the Active Directory and the server and storage technologies. This crucial release borrows from the legacy Exchange system, but also from a myriad of others. The organization of the book provides necessary background on the software and hardware required in order to manage an efficient scalable Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server deployment.
Key technology for planning a future strategy is covered in the form of hardware and software that enable mission critical solutions including Storage Area Networks and Gigabit networks, Microsoft Clustering and multi-core symmetric multiprocessing.
*Reorganized to be a better reference and include details needed for Windows 2003's Server to effectively implement and manage a scalable Exchange infrastructure
*Best practices for deploying Exchange 2003 SP2 in large-scale and high performance environments are described
*Gives final recommendations, from consulting for Fortune 500 Corporations and from inside knowledge of Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003 SP1 & SP2, and Windows Server 2003
*Reviews key server and storage technologies and their appropriateness to scalable and high performance Exchange infrastructures

Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000 is the definitive book on how to design, maintain, and optimize large-scale Exchange Server messaging systems that meet the needs of demanding and rapidly growing organizations. Written by one of the industry's leading experts on Exchange Server performance optimization and scalability, Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000 is a reference book for designing Exchange servers. It shows you how to maintain and operate your server according to ever more stringent service levels, while meeting the demand for increasing data growth and manageability. Bijaoui provides information on key technologies such as storage and systems architecture that can meet demands for greater availability. The book also explains the determining factors in designing large-scale Exchange 2000 deployments, and provides a methodology for getting the best out of your messaging and collaboration infrastructure.
.Pragmatic approach to performance analysis
.Uses out-of-the-box Windows 2000 tools
.Based on real-life deployment situations"