Exchange defrag

Deathwish · 18 Feb 2009 at 21:53

Hi guys,

Just wondering what other people do in terms of offline defrags on Exchange. Do you have a set maintenance schedule, or do them ad-hock?

Ta!

Deathwish · 18 Feb 2009 at 22:08

Hmm, interesting! We had usually managed to do one offline defrag per year as we had been told this was the done thing. Time to re-evaluate!

Cheers

Deathwish · 18 Feb 2009 at 22:17

I think our practise of defragging started in 5.5, before my time

Now that I am handling the migration to 2007 I think it is time to re-write our maintenance schedules and practices.

Deathwish · 19 Feb 2009 at 19:01

Thanks for the feedback guys! We have yet to migrate any users to 2007 but our existing 2003 server has a single DB at 100Gb, makes me cry

Deathwish · 19 Feb 2009 at 20:10

Ex2007 is a geo-clustered CCR in our existing domain setup. Going to be migrating users over in the next few weeks. I have split the database up into 8 (with 8 SGs). Much better

Deathwish · 19 Feb 2009 at 20:30

It's excellent! Even my boss commented the other day. "So, it just fails over, like that?"

Cue: smug grin, "Yes, it does"

Deathwish · 19 Feb 2009 at 22:05

That is how we are running it, as our two datasites are different subnets. Works fine, apart from the short lag in DNS propogation.