HP Advanced Services zl Module with Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Planning and Design Guide

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Branch Office Solutions with the Advanced Services zl Module with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Solutions Overview

This guide describes four solutions that demonstrate how you can deploy the

HP Advanced Services zl Module with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. On

its own, the module hosts critical applications and delivers all of the basic

Windows services required at a branch. When deployed with the other HP

products listed in the table, the module becomes a powerful part of branch

solutions for WAN link optimization, wireless services, unified communica-

tions, and network authentication and access control.

These solutions present only a few examples of ways in which you can deploy

the module. You can combine these solutions as required for your environment

as well as add any services to the module that are supported by Microsoft

Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard.

HP has tested the basic solutions; however, you should check Microsoft

guidelines to verify that the roles, features, and applications that you choose

to deploy will work with the number of users and level of utilization required

in your environment.

Table 1-1. Solution Overview

Branch Need Solution Branch Size

Solution 1 Reduce WAN traffic • HP Advanced Services zl

Module with Microsoft

Windows Server 2008 R2

• HP AllianceONE Extended

Services zl Module with

Riverbed® Steelhead RiOS®

• Riverbed appliance at the

data center

Less than100

employees

Solution 2 Local authentication

and survivability

• HP Advanced Services zl

Module with Microsoft

Windows Server 2008 R2

• HP E-MSM765 zl Mobility

Controller

• HP E-MSM APs

Between 400 and 500

wired and wireless

clients at a high school