The most comprehensive high availability, low cost software solution for Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003

From the Pony Express to Federal Express, snail mail to email, the drive in business has always been to communicate faster, more efficiently and more cost effectively. Once an innovation, email is now a business necessity. How much would it cost your company in lost productivity and revenue to go a day without Microsoft® Exchange? With Neverfail for Exchange, you’ll never have to know.

The heart and soul of Neverfail for Exchange – Neverfail Heartbeat
The most important consideration in protecting your Microsoft Exchange environment is creating a real-time, duplicate copy of your Exchange data. Neverfail Heartbeat sits at the core of Neverfail’s suite of affordable, “cluster-class” solutions, replicating data from your active to your passive server, whether they reside in the same server room, or across the globe.

Neverfail for Exchange is the only high availability solution that proactively monitors your entire Exchange environment
Neverfail for Exchange proactively monitors the health of your physical server hardware, network infrastructure, operating system, and Microsoft Exchange application. If any problem occurs, Neverfail can take a variety of preemptive, corrective actions to resolve the issue without resorting to a full system fail-over. In extreme cases where the issue can not be resolved, a graceful switch-over to your secondary server can occur automatically, ensuring continuous Exchange availability.

In addition to protecting your Microsoft Exchange application, Neverfail can also protect auxiliary applications that you may have installed onto your server. These may include supporting applications such as anti-virus, backup, fax and archiving solutions. Our Application Module eXtension (AMX) technology provides an application program interface to easily and rapidly generate these extension products. Neverfail’s existing library of AMX is extensive; they are fully maintained and supported and remove the commercial concern and cost of “one-off” development practices on a critical server.

You’ll only find switch-back capabilities in Neverfail for Exchange
In addition to offering both manual and automatic switch-over capabilities, Neverfail for Exchange also features the ability to seamlessly switch-back, something replication solutions can’t offer. Whether your primary server is down for several hours or even days, Neverfail will seamlessly resynchronize your servers when the primary does come back online, and allow you to switch your workload back to a normal production state within a few minutes by the simple click of a button!

High availability over a LAN or WAN environment
Neverfail for Exchange can be configured to protect your email in either a LAN or WAN environment. Where bandwidth or network utilization is an issue or needs to be reduced, the Neverfail Low Bandwidth Module (LBM) is available to optimize and reduce the amount of data that is transmitted between the two servers.

Key Features

Reliability is the first and most crucial step to achieving high availability
The successful implementation and ongoing performance of any clusterclass high availability solution is predicated upon a reliable technology platform. Neverfail’s Server Check Optimization Performance Evaluation (SCOPE) is the only automated software solution to deliver a comprehensive health “check-up” of your server environment. SCOPE identifies existing configuration and performance issues in your environment prior to installation of a high availability solution and it provides “snapshots” of your environment to ensure on-going reliability.

Neverfail for Exchange Summary
Your business communications are too important to leave to back-up or replication. And why settle for a partial solution that focuses only on recovering hardware and data failures from a primary server when Neverfail for Exchange can deliver comprehensive, proactive failure protection for all elements of your server environment? Only Neverfail for Exchange can give you a cluster-class, high availability solution that’s easy to install at approximately one tenth the cost of other cluster-class solutions.

System Requirements

Primary server requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 compatible server with 2GB of free system hard disk space. This should not be spread over several drives.
• A minimum of 1GB RAM is recommended. Exact requirements depend on application load.
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server latest SP version, or Microsoft Windows 2003.
• Microsoft Exchange 2000 Standard or Enterprise latest SP version, or Microsoft Exchange 2003 Standard or Enterprise.

Secondary server requirements

• Windows 2000 or 2003 compatible server with disk space and memory to match the Primary Server. Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 operating system with the same Service Pack applied as the Primary Server and same version of Exchange with the same Service Pack applied as the Primary Server.

Network requirements

• 2 Network cards per machine (1 Public & 1 Channel) or 3 Network cards per machine (1 Public & 2 Channel).

Licensing

• Neverfail Exchange is licensed based on the Server in a pair with the greatest number of CPU’s.