The HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, is a jointly engineered converged infrastructure preferred solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. It is the industry’s first self-contained platform which integrates servers, storage, networking, software, configuration tools, and support – everything you need to run Exchange Server 2010. The HP E5000 is pre-configured and optimized to run Exchange 2010 using best practice architecture from both HP and Microsoft.
The HP E5000 offers customers several benefits:
- A complete solution for Exchange 2010, offering a rapid planning and deployment cycle – made possible by the pre-configuration work done by HP and Microsoft, and the configuration software developed specifically for this solution.
- Large, low-cost mailboxes pre-configured as part of the solution.
- A high availability configuration, both from the server role perspective as well as mailbox resiliency (using a two-copy Database Availability Group).
- Decreased operational running costs resulting from savings in both datacenter space and power consumption.
- Flexibility to grow – both by adding mailboxes and increasing mailbox sizes.
- 24×7 support of both HP hardware and Microsoft software provided by HP with 4 hour on-site response included for 3 years.
- A solution designed and backed by HP and Microsoft.
The HP E5000 is ideally suited for customers with a mailbox count ranging from 250 up to 15,000. It is an on-premises solution which will excel in several scenarios:
- A typical single-site deployment offering high availability in a complete solution.
- A distributed IT environment, offering geographical redundancy in a high availability or disaster recovery mode.
- Remote or branch office deployments.
I think this is going to be a fairly compelling solution, not just because of the hardware it’s based on, but also due to how easy it is to deploy in your environment. It’s an enterprise ready Exchange solution that can be deployed without any complex calculations, no hotfixes to add, no need to understand the storage testing tools, no need to configure the availability database groups – it’s all done for you, just in-a-box. Yes you can deploy it yourself, but you will still need to do a fair bit of work with the planning, implementation and migration of the current environment onto this box, but that is what Professional Services is for isnt it? 🙂
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