Replicating your Exchange environment

Reason to replicate your Exchange environment

If you want the ability to recover from a total site outage in a minimum amount of time, you can replicate your Exchange environment to a remote site. Then, if the primary site is destroyed, you can re-create your Exchange environment on the replicated site.

For more information about re-creating your Exchange environment on the replicated site, see Recovering both a failed filer and Exchange server to a replicated environment.

Example replicated site

The following diagram shows a typical Exchange site replication:

Note the following facts about this site configuration:

The Windows environment (Active Directory, Domain Controller, etc.) is replicated through the Wide Area Network (WAN) to the replicated site.
For more information about replicating your Windows environment and using a replicated environment to recover from a disaster, see your Windows documentation.
The Exchange data on the filer is mirrored using SnapMirror to a filer on the replicated site.
For more information about setting up SnapMirror, see your Data ONTAP System Administration Data Protection Guide.
The standby Exchange server is configured identically to your primary Exchange server, except for the following differences:
- It does not yet have Exchange installed.
- It is not yet a member of the domain (leave it in workgroup mode).
- It has a different name than the primary Exchange server.