[itdiscuss] Exhange Defrag

[Jason Hand]

I would not try a defrag on a volume with the exchange store on it while in
production.  The store is just a couple of large database files and are not
defragmentable except for what you mentioned, eseutil.  As for the other
files, surely they are not causing performance problems for Exchange.
 
JKDefrag works well and I have used it on file servers and workstations with
success.  Since it runs as a command-line utility it works very well and is
easy to schedule via the Task Scheduler.
 
Defragmenting can help in situations where the drive is being used to do
lots of read/write access to the files stored on it like a File server but
since Exchange is like any other database system it houses it's files in
'containers' and therefore doesn't really benefit from the rest of the drive
being defragmented.
 
-Jason

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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org]
On Behalf Of Stephen W. Klose
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:57 PM
To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
Subject: [itdiscuss] Exhange Defrag



Are there any issues with running a file level defrag on drive that also has
the Exchange Server Stor?

 

I know there is eseutil, but at the same time, there are other files on the
drive that are fragmented and affecting performance.

 

Here are some links that indicate it is okay, but I have seen warnings on
the subject as well:

Microsoft Help Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328804

Article with user comments:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/10/25/247342.aspx

 

Also: Does anyone know of any issues with jkdefrag? (open source alternative
to the windows defrag)

 

Thanks,

 

Steve Klose

Altadena Valley Presbyterian Church

Cell: 205.427.5420

Home: 205.987.7545

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