Hey all; Lori:
I run RAXCO's PerfectDisk on my servers, mostly cause it has the
capability of running ESEUTIL from a GUI, which is easier to explain to
some people rather than a command line.
But I digress.
Unless you are doing a lot of purging and expanding of your
Message database, then once you have a steady state size, and have it
physically defragmented, you won't have much need of a disk
defragmenter, at least not for the Exchange message database.
Defragmenting the transaction log drive is useless, as these files are
written and purged on a daily basis.
However, if you are building a server, or moving a lot of users
and/or data into a current MDB so that it grows beyond it's internal
whitespace you will need to at least analyze the disk for fragmentation.
Also, should you run ESEUTIL /D, you will need to analyze the
disk again since ESEUTIL /D essentially rebuilds your EDB file, and
should you not have a large enough contiguous block of empty disk space,
the new EDB file will end up fragmented once again.
To bottom line it for you, defragmenting an Exchange database
drive is a one time thing, unless you A. Expand the EDB file, or B. Run
ESEUTIL /D which gives you a new EDB file, which MAY need to be
defragmented. You do not need to run a disk defragmentation utility on
a daily basis.
John Matteson
Geac Corporate ISS
(404) 239 - 2981
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lori Sagert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Posted At: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:57 PM
Posted To: Exchange Discussion List
Conversation: Diskeeper and Exchange
Subject: Diskeeper and Exchange
Hello All:
I would like to know if anyone has had bad/good experiences with
Diskeeper running on Exchange 5.5? I do not want to implement it on our
Exchange servers but Mgmt is pushing the issue. I would like to go to
the meeting with some ammunition why it shouldn't be implemented.
Apparently my word isn't enough...;) It might help if I can give them
some concrete proof from other Exchange Admins. Any stories out there?
TIA
Lori
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