Business Apps in the Cloud Series:Migrating Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Eric SchubertEric Schubert is a Solutions Engineer for Tier 3 with 15 years of IT and Exchange experience. As a consultant Eric has performed over a dozen Exchange transitions and migrations.

Today’s Cloud Experts

Nic O’DonovanNic O’Donovan is a Solution Architect and Cloud Specialist with VMware. Nic focuses on building public clouds via Service Providers in the Americas.

Today’s Agenda

• How the VMware-based hybrid cloud enables business agility

• Top reasons and considerations for running your back office applications in the cloud

• Microsoft Exchange Server in the cloud: hosting options and a migration walkthrough

Business and IT Leaders Say Cloud Enables Agility

SOURCE: Global Business Agility Survey, February 2011

80%+ associate business agility with revenue growth, cost reduction, and risk management

63% agree cloud can have a significant impact in making business more agile and responsive

Companies with enterprise-wide cloud deployments are 3x more likely to achieve business agility that is “much better than competition”

The Enterprise Hybrid CloudNic O’Donovan, VMware

Apps

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Computing

Cloud Infrastructure

Apps

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Security

vCloud Powered Service• Common platform

• Common management

Cloud Computing Moves from a Technology Discussion to a Business Decision

vCloudService Provider

Private Cloud VMware =

Enterprise-class

Hybrid Cloud

What Does Mean for You?

Highly available, secure, production-ready hybrid cloud

Same quality and management experience as your own VMware-run datacenter or private cloud

Move workloads from your VMware vSphere-based virtualized or private cloud environment to the vCloud-powered public cloud and back again

• Easy proof of concept builds, bursting, and more

Leverages existing investments in VMware virtualization

Private Cloud

vSphere Public Cloud DC #1

Datacenter Service Provider

VMware Makes it Easy to Migrate Apps and Workloads Across Clouds

vSphere

Keep business mission critical in the datacenter and move other essential apps to the cloud

• Operational offloading of routine tasks

• Strategic flexibility Public Cloud DC #2

Business Apps in the CloudEric Schubert, Tier 3

Increase Business Agility with Cloud Services

Business Agility

Proof of Concept /Lab

Back Office Applications

LoB AppsWeb Front End

DR

Increase Business Agility with Cloud Services

Business Agility

Proof of Concept /Lab

Back Office Applications

LoB AppsWeb Front End

DR

Exchange Lync

SharePoint

Dynamics

Common Back-Office Applications to Run in the Cloud

SQL MySQL

Active Directory

• Frequent outages and data loss; Managing infrastructure distracted from innovation and serving customers

Challenge

• Run back office applications securely from the enterprise cloud

• 800+ Exchange mailboxes and 1MM+ forwarding addresses

• Other solutions including: Voice over IP, Financial apps (custom ERP, custom billing), File serving and file sharing

Solution

• Increased business agility • Reduced operational complexity and costs

Impact

Back Office Case study:

“Our entire business depends on the Tier 3 Cloud. It pretty much runs everything for us, so that we don’t have to.” - Andy Evans, Founder and CTO, Obeo

Assess your existing situation: infrastructure, licensing, staffing

Consider which of your apps could leverage unique cloud capabilities

Assess your security requirements to understand implications

Plan migration to minimize impact/downtime—practice good change management

Back Office Migration: Getting Started

The “Back Office Migration Considerations Checklist” is available as a separate download.

Microsoft Exchange Server in the Cloud

Can immediately spin up new projects and applications

Eliminate CapEx: Extend your network securely and privately, while only paying for the resources that you actually use.

Operational offloading refocuses staff to higher value mission critical apps.

Enhanced Functionality without Complexity

Why Move Microsoft Exchange Server to the Cloud?

Tap into built in disaster recovery, backups are handled automatically

Quickly get all the benefits of the most up-to-date software (Exchange 2010) Upgrading is non-intrusive, resulting in less disruption for users as compared to

traditional upgrades

Enhanced Business Continuity

Increased Flexibility, Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Increased Business Agility

Exchange Server 2010 Comparison

Feature Hosted On-Premise Tier 3 Full Exchange

Full Version No Yes Yes

Utility based pricing Yes No Yes

Complete Management No Yes Yes

Requires major Cap-Ex No Yes No

Public Folders No Yes Yes

Active Directory Integration

No Yes Yes

Dynamic Resources Yes Must pre-provision

Yes

Integrated Backups Yes No Yes

SLA’s and DR 99.9% ? 99.999%

Control Portalfor Management

Limited No Yes

Transitioning to Exchange Server 2010 in the Cloud

Cloud Scale on Your Own Terms High availability /low latency via

DAGs, active /active deployment Retain control: unlimited mailbox

and message sizes; legacy features such as Public Folders

Conform to security policies and compliance needs (archiving and e-discovery)

Licensing freedom: your own Exchange license or SPLA

Optimize costs: scale user count up or down monthly with no minimums or penalties

Cloud Deployment Example

Exchange architecture is ideal for Hybrid Cloud

Exchange Server Roles and Configuration Options

Single server, Fully redundant, Or anywhere in between

Exchange Configuration Option #1 – Single Server

• Mailbox• Hub Transport• Client Access• Roles all on 1 server

Exchange Configuration Option #2 – Fully Redundant

• Load Balanced Client Access and Hub Transport servers

• Multiple Database Servers

• Protected with DAG

Exchange System Architecture Use Case

This environment can lose 2 servers and still maintain full functionality.

Understanding Database Availability Groups

It’s clustering for your mailbox database

Create VPN tunnel

Provision a server with AD in

your domain

Create first Exchange 2010 server connected

to your Exchange environment

Enable backups, monitoring and

updates

Migrate web services (OWA,

ActiveSync, etc.)Move mailboxes

Synchronize public folders

Migrate additional features

Remove legacy Exchange servers

Steps to Migrating Exchange to the Cloud

For more details, see the Tier 3 whitepaper, “Exchange Server 2010 Cloud Migration ”

Live Demo of Tier 3 Control Portal

Press “Pause” Now and Visit the Link Below:bit.ly/ExchangeDemo

• The Tier 3 Control Portal offers quick, intuitive access to all settings: server resources, IP addresses, DNS entries, and more

• Spin virtual machines up in minutes or deploy complete apps and environments automatically using Blueprints

• API also available for developers

Live Demo of Tier 3 Control Portal

Enterprise Cloud Provider ChecklistAvailability Five 9s SLA covering servers, network and storage

Performance Unique virtualization tech delivering comparable to on-premise performance for apps (not 20% less)

Automated, predictive optimization and hypervisor auto-tuning

Security Secure, multi-tenant architecture that segregates data SAS 70 Type II audited, HIPAA and PCI compliant, SSAE16 cert underway Secure connection (point-to-point or client VPN, direct connection) Strong physical security policies for data centers

Business Continuity

Disaster recovery built-in: automated 14-day backups replicated to geographically diverse datacenters

Control Choice of API or control panel enables you to control every server instance

Immediate, automatic monitoring of all resources and predictive cost estimates

Support Dedicated level 3 engineers on call 24/7

Flexibility/Cost Charged for resources (CPU, memory, storage) allocated by the hour

The “Enterprise Cloud Provider Checklist” is available as a separate download.

Summary and Q&A

• VMware technology enables the hybrid cloud

• Running full-featured back office apps such as Microsoft Exchange Server in the cloud increases agility while lowering TCO

• Important to partner with an enterprise-grade cloud provider

We will send your 2 checklists after the webinar; be sure to sign up for your step-by-step Exchange migration whitepaper