Before you can manage Exchange storage, add one or more Exchange on-premises forests or organizations in ESI. ESI does not support Exchange online forests. Exchange limits a single DAG to a maximum of 16 servers, so that is the maximum number supported in ESI.
After adding one or more Exchange forests in ESI, you can view and manage all Exchange entities in that forest, including DAGs, mailbox servers, databases, and database copies. ESI discovers and associates database copies to corresponding host disks in ESI. You can view the status of the database copies and associated disks in the ESI GUI or with the ESI PowerShell Toolkit.
You can view the status of the database copies and associated disks in the ESI GUI or with the ESI PowerShell Toolkit. You can also use the Get-EmcMailboxServer and Get-EMCHostSystem ESI PowerShell cmdlets to associate Exchange mailbox servers with the corresponding host systems.
To add an Exchange on-premises forest:
In the left pane of the ESI window, select Applications > Exchange.
In the Actions pane, click Add Exchange.
The Add Exchange forest dialog box appears.
Set the following field values for the forest.
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Field |
Description |
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Friendly Name |
Short name for the forest that is unique across the different forests |
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FQDN or URL |
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or URL of an Exchange server name or URL that is in the forest |
|
User login Username |
Administrator user name for the forest |
|
User login Password |
Administrator password for the forest |
|
Use current Windows Credential |
Accept or change it to use the current credentials of the ESI host system |
Click Add to add the forest.
The forest and related servers appears in the Available Systems list in the center pane.
Note: Click Test Connection to test if the field settings are correct before adding the forest.
