EXCHANGE SERVER

PERFORMANCE & REPORTS

Cyril Leroy – Microsoft Specialist - GSX Solutions

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GSX Solutions at a glance

Why migration is never an Easy Story?

Monitoring Main Challenges during migration

Live demo

Agenda

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GSX Solutions

• Founded in 1996

• Microsoft Business Partner

• Headquartered in Switzerland, with Offices in the

USA, China and France

• Specialized in Monitoring and Reporting solution

for Messaging and Collaboration Environment

GSX Solutions© 2013 4

GSX partners and awards

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Manage availability and performance

Proactive monitoring

All in on software, no agent, no module nor add-on

PowerShell embedded test sets

Synthetic user transactions

Based on Windows performances counters

Auto discovery of Exchange and SharePoint

Automatic inventories

No script to maintain / No more WMI corruption

Multi tenant

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GSX Under the hood 7

Critical focus areas

Audit

Consolidation and Merging

Validation of Architecture Sizing

Stress Test Validation

Co-existence of Messaging Infrastructure

SLA Management

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Save

Costs

Reduce

Users Impact

Optimize

IT Resources

Challenges

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Migration follow up

Validate the load move between source and target environments

Track mail routing latency and pending queues

Easily update user counts on both platforms

Identify undesired changes

Track user connections

Performance Monitoring check list

Are my Exchange servers Online, do they serve all protocols?

Are key Windows services up and running?

Are my servers performing fine? check for usage and free resources

(CPU, memory, disk usage)

Are all my mailbox databases mounted and redundant?

Is my environment highly available, is automatic failover ready to

perform?

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Based on the consolidated metrics collected during

scans

Global service availability

Detailed performance and usage history

Capacity planning and forecasting

Protocol and routing latency tracking

Per server, role, protocol and services

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Works on any type of Deployment:

Exchange 2010 - 2013 - Hybrid/Online

Reports on Availability, Performance and

Usage of collaboration environments

Focused on End User Performance

Comprehensive and intuitive dashboard

Complementary to SCOM

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GSX’s Beta Program

v10.7 Beta available

Support for Exchange 2013,

Exchange Online and Hybrid deployments

Free Trial Version

30 days

Full features

Up to 10 servers per platform

Unlimited users

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EMEA

Geneva, Switzerland

+41 22 735 82 40

sales@gsx.com

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