Dell has released an updated set of advisor tools for Exchange 2010. The tools can be used for rough sizing of servers and storage and utilizes Dell’s Equalogic, PowerVault, EMC and PowerEdge components. Unfortunately, and contrary to the HP Sizing Tools for Exchange 2010, the Dell Advisor can only be used online, so solutions can’t be saved or re-used. To be honest, the tool is more like a linear Wizard. It only supports single-site solutions, but it supports Database Availability Groups (DAG), DAS or or SAN-based storage, high availability and client options, but in a very limited fashion (i.e. Yes/No type of questions).

You can start the Dell Exchange 2010 Advisor by clicking here.

Note that for those involved with OCS, Dell also released the Unified Communications Advisor Tool for OCS 2007 R2.