The requirements are "more" because UM is on every server, whereas in most places before, it simply didn't exist. Of course, other new features do impact performance, but I believe that is the single largest impact.
Now, back to the OP: you know that image backups of Exchange servers are not supported, correct? Also, the log files are limited to a churn of 250 MB per log directory per day (by default). Even if you have absolutely everything turned on, you are still only referring to 6-7 GB per day. Compared to the size of your log files and databases, that should be tiny. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Peck Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 5:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Exchange] disable exch2013 default logging I don't think those are 'preemptive for MS PSS'. Pretty sure these are all part of the 'Managed Availability' that is built in now. As far as I can see, they pretty much took all the stuff that was in previous SCOM management packs and built it into Exchange. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/09/21/lessons-from-the-datacenter-managed-availability.aspx http://www.expta.com/2012/12/exchange-2013-health-check-monitors-and.html http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150551(v=exchg.150).aspx Which I think is why the requirements are so much more beefy even on test environment servers. I could be wrong, as I am a bit rusty on the Exchange side since they tossed me back on the team so working to catch back up Someone will correct me if I am wrong on this. Steven Peck > From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [Exchange] disable exch2013 default logging > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 16:27:31 +0000 > > Is there a way to disable the baked-in Exchange 2013 diagnostic logging? > > I see google-fu around relocation of it, but couldn't find an off switch. My > concern relates to image-based backups of these systems and having to seed an > extra semi-useless 1GB+ per day for things like this from a default install: > > C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange > Server\V15\Logging\Diagnostics\DailyPerformanceLogs > C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange > Server\V15\Logging\Monitoring\Monitoring\ActiveMonitoringTraceLogs > > Those directories appear to self-clean, so it's not a permanently growing > file structure ... but it still results in a massive daily delta for image > backups that'd just as soon avoid seeding to disk and cloud if I can. > > I know why it's there (preemptive diags for PSS in the event I need to invoke > them) but curious if there's a way to just turn it off. > > Anyone know anything on this? I presume that turning off Health Manager > service maybe helps, not sure if there's a downside to that, or if that's > comprehensive enough to stop that data being written (maybe there's baked-in > tasks as well, etc etc) > > Any insight/pointers appreciated. I don't mind having that data around except > for the negative impact on those image-based backups. > > Rick
