It's not necessary. The kind of disk I/O performed on an Exchange server does not require defragmentation. I suggest that you remove the software and redeploy the license on a server where it would be more useful, such as a file server.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Time Magazine's Person of the Year! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Fernicola Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:31 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: PerfectDisk Hey, now I get to answer something. Well I use PerfectDisk on all my servers and workstations. I can tell you that it is a great product and really does a great job at defraging hard drives. Now Ive been told not to defrag an Exchange Server while its running, potentially it could cause problems but im not 100% sure. Due to that argument I have yet to install PerfectDisk on any of my exchange servers. If you wanted to be really safe I Would shut down exchange before doing a defrag. Or schedule offline defrags that will reboot the pc first and then defrag, and then boot to windows in one step. Can anyone correct me if I'm wrong, can you safely defrag a win2k3 box while exchange is still running? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chinnery, Paul Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 11:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: PerfectDisk We're running Exchange 2000 on a W2K server. My director pointed me to PerfectDisk by Raxco as a possible tool to "speed up" Exchange response. I was wondering if anyone is using this product and can let me know if it's worthwhile to look into it. As I noted, E2K STD with program files on C, logs on D and mailbox store on E (attached to SAN drive) and about 150 mailboxes.. I don't think defrag is an issue as much as we're running anti-virus and anti-spam on the same server. Paul Chinnery Network Administrator Memorial Medical Center _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
