Thanks all for your input. We've agreed to run Diskeeper on some remote servers that are running File and Print but exclude the Exchsrvr directories.
I won the biggest battle of keeping it off the Veritas Exchange clusters. Yeah! (I know, friends don't let friends cluster Exchange... I had no choice....;)That's a whole other story. Thanks again! Lori -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Matteson Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 11:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Diskeeper and Exchange 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 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
