1. F5 solution for Microsoft Exchange

2. 2 Exchange 2010 Architecture External SMTP servers Edge Transport Routing and AV/AS Phone system (PBX or VoIP) Client Access Client connectivity Web services Hub Transport Routing and policy Web browser Outlook (remote user) Mobile phone Outlook (local user) Line of business application Mailbox Storage of mailbox items Unified Messaging Voice mail and voice access BIG-IP

3. 3 Software or hardware load balancing? Answering “yes” to any of these indicates a key reason for hardware load balancingYesNo 1Will there be a reverse proxy or NAT between users and Exchange servers? 2Will you deploy Outlook Anywhere, Active/Sync mobile and web clients? 3Will you deploy multi-role servers (Mailbox and CAS on the same server?) 4Do you need continuous Exchange availability during CAS server maintenance? 5Do you need Exchange service health awareness (not merely server health)? 6Will you use client IP addresses from a small number of Class C subnets? 7Will you deploy more than 8 CAS servers?

4. 4 Configuration - we have a template for that

5. 5 Site level health BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) –Starts with good server level health within 1 site –Includes external link health –Disaster Recovery and Active/Active Site A Users Site B  Global Traffic Manager 

6. 6 Endpoint inspection Virtualization for Application and Directory Web application security Web application acceleration Exchange CAS Servers Policy Manager Directory ASM or WA LTM + APM + Richer Application Delivery

7. 7 Exchange related resources F5 Solution page for Exchange Server –http://www.f5.com/solutions/microsoft/exchangehttp://www.f5.com/solutions/microsoft/exchange Video demo of BIG-IP deployment for Exchange Server 2010 –http://www.vimeo.com/album/1537190http://www.vimeo.com/album/1537190 F5 Deployment Guide for Exchange Server 2010 –http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-exchange-2010-dg.pdfhttp://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-exchange-2010-dg.pdf F5 developer/IT admin user community –http://devcentral.f5.com/microsofthttp://devcentral.f5.com/microsoft Microsoft Exchange Tested Solution with F5 –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg513522.aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg513522.aspx Technical white paper by Microsoft on their internal deployment –http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/D/85D61478-8719-4219-96BA- E5C53DD4F436/0941_ExchangeServer2010ArchitectureTWP.docxhttp://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/D/85D61478-8719-4219-96BA- E5C53DD4F436/0941_ExchangeServer2010ArchitectureTWP.docx Load-balancing requirements from TechNet –http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625247.aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625247.aspx