HP has launched the HP E5000 Messaging System (E5000) Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange 2010. The E5000 Messaging System is a preferred solution for Exchange 2010, engineered by both HP and Microsoft. It includes everything that you need for a messaging system – servers, storage, networking and deployment tools and the best practices for Exchange from experienced engineers.

The E5000 Messaging System has been designed to simplify the initial planning, testing and configuration of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 by providing agile solutions that are pre-configured and ready to deploy. The E5000 is offered in five models, supporting 500, 1,000 or 3,000 mailboxes per messaging system, hosting large 1.2GB or 2.5GB mailbox capacities1. The E5000 incorporates both HP and Microsoft best practices to deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (Exchange 2010) in a highly available solution.

Hardware
The E5000 features a new 3U hardware chassis that includes two blade servers and a disk drawer containing sixteen hot swap drives connected via the new P1210m 6Gbs storage controller. This creates a very dense platform for building a 2-node highly available Exchange cluster taking advantage of the Exchange Database Availability Group feature set Exchange 2010. The platform is expandable by adding up to four external disk shelves directly through the storage controller ensuring that the system can scale as mailbox capacity grows.

Planning & Sizing
HP and Microsoft have made all of the mundane hardware selections based on the joint best practices for deploying Exchange reducing the amount of planning and sizing work. E5000 systems are pre-sized to handle 500, 1000 or 3000 1GB or 2.5GB capacity mailboxes sending and receiving 200 messages per day. This allows you to simply choose a model based on their number of mailboxes and average size without performing the complex performance calculations required by build-it-yourself systems. CompuCom can help you with sizing.

Deployment & Management
E5000 Systems are designed to be deployed in hours rather than days. Storage is pre-configured and Windows Server 2008 R2 is pre-installed allowing you to get running as soon as the system is racked. We add quick deployment tools to add the servers into your Active Directory and to simplify the Exchange deployment. Using a pre-configured system allows our deployment tools to setup the highly available, 2-copy mailbox databases with minimal interaction.

The system also includes a basic management suite to keep Exchange running smoothly or you can use your favorite management suite like System Center or HP Insight Manager.

In addition, 3 years of bumper-to-bumper coverage is included by the HP support team. This 24x7 support covers all of the hardware and all of the software including Exchange 2010. That’s one phone number for whatever you need.