"Simplicity was the key to using NearPoint for recovery. Ranging from a full database recovery to a mailbox restore, I found that NearPoint was very simple to use and the performance was impressive."
— Tom Pacek, AVP of Technology, Virtua Health
Microsoft® Exchange demands the highest levels of data protection and availability. As for many enterprises it is one, if not, the most important application because end-users are highly dependent on the content it contains and the communication tools it provides.
What would your organization do if there was ever a system outage or a site disaster? Do you have a plan in place to constantly monitor and back-up your Exchange data – email, files, SharePoint – should it every go down? Without a data protection plan in place your organization could end up crippled. Therefore, disaster recovery plan is vital so you can proactively plan to subvert disaster with an off-site data replication plan for protection against site disasters or system outages, you can do just that. Simultaneously save time, money and unnecessary headaches, all with zero footprint on your Exchange server.
The NearPoint Disaster Recovery application integrates with Mimosa NearPoint™ and provides a total solution for data protection; both local and remote configurations are supported. Mimosa NearPoint is capable of restoring Exchange databases, storage groups, or the entire exchange server in the event of a hardware or software failure. The NearPoint Disaster Recovery application extends the capability of NearPoint and enables restoration of Exchange data to a standby Exchange Server, including restarting of Exchange services and remapping of mailboxes in an Active Directory Server.
Administrators configure disaster recovery policies and perform pretests to verify standby servers are configured accurately. When disaster strikes, "one click" is all it takes to initiate complete Exchange failover. Fast, automated recovery of Exchange, performed by NearPoint, minimizes loss of service and provides business continuity of critical Exchange services.
Management of the NearPoint Disaster Recovery application is simplified with wizard-driven menus to guide set-up and help define the failover policies. Configuration checks are performed during the set-up process to ensure the accuracy of the environment. Should resources change, monitoring features of the NearPoint Disaster Recovery application alert the administrator something has been altered in the set-up. The application also ensures the disaster recovery set-up is accurate and will perform reliably when disaster strikes.
NearPoint Disaster Recovery application can also be integrated as part of a broader disaster recovery solution such as NetApp’s SnapManager for Exchange.
Features |
Benefits |
Continuous data protection |
Fast service recovery and data protection for Exchange integrated with Mimosa NearPoint |
Exchange log file replication |
Application-intelligent replication preserving data consistency to ensure a corruption-free copy of Exchange |
Zero footprint |
No agent or kernel driver software installed on Exchange Server that might cause instability and compete for CPU, memory, and storage resources |
Integrated Disaster Recovery monitoring |
Alerts the administrator of any changes to the Disaster recovery configuration and status |
Disaster recovery protection |
Practical approach to disaster recovery protection without the cost and complexity of wide area clustering |
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