STEALTH Mail Server Storage Guide

STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra is the industry’s first truly seamless integrated SharePoint Content Store solution for External Storage and Cloud Storage. STEALTH Software extends the value and performance of VMware Zimbra while optimizing storage and server resources using External Storage and Cloud Storage. Exploding data volumes make companies quickly run out of UNIX fileserver resources which means that additional Zimbra Mail servers must be deployed resulting in information silos and overall a higher management effort. When this is the situation at your company, STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra can save your company money in terms of license fees, management effort and additional hardware.

Continued storage infrastructure flexibility for your Zimbra environment usage regarding your users and content

By choosing STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra and External Storage, you are able to opt-in or opt-out of the solution depending on your requirements over time. You can return to the infrastructure prior to the installation of the solution without being locked in, as in sometimes the case with particular archiving solutions for Zimbra

No limitations in Zimbra usage regarding users and content

By choosing STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra and External Storage, you are able to add any type of content to your Zimbra environment without seeing a performance impact for the user community. This is achieved by storing only the metadata to the MySQL Server and Mailbox content to the External Storage via the STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra solution

Provides for complete business continuity

With the combined STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra and External Storage solution, the backup and restore times of your database and content can be brought within acceptable windows. This can give you the ability to reduce business continuity risks to an absolute minimum.

Non-intrusive to the VMware Zimbra environment

The combined STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra and External Storage solution is fully transparent for the users of Zimbra. As required, additional capacity can seamlessly be added to the External Storage platforms for usage by STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra – now or in the future

Potential reduced capital expenditures for VMware Zimbra environments

Once the STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra and External Storage solution is deployed, only the metadata is kept in the MySQL database. You are then able to move content to the more cost-effective Dell DX Object Storage Platform or Caringo CAStor which can result in an immediate return on investment (ROI).

Value and freedom

Instead of storing it on a Zimbra Mailbox server filesystem, STEALTH Content Storage for Zimbra using the External Storage allows you the ability to efficiently and cost effectively Storage unstructured data known as msg (messages). This integrated solution can deliver the performance, scalability, and reliability that you require for your VMware Zimbra implementations. Your organization can ease the strain on the MySQL Server database by storing content on the External Storage that can seamlessly grow to Petabytes depending on capacity needs

Reduce storage and storage handling costs

Reduced storage costs can be obtained by utilizing the External Storage Platform for Zimbra content storage, resulting in direct ROI.