Defrag Exchange?

[hesaloser]

Hey all,
I have a question about Exchange and Defragmentation. There are a lot of resources out there available that talk about exchange and defragmentation. I am curious as to what the effects of running the disk defragmenter via computer management mmc on an Exchange partition. The drive’s data is currently in terrible condition, 49% total frag, 98% file frag….
I’ve read about the offline defrag utility eseutil, however I’m not sure if it is the best option to choose. The normal disk defragmenter if I understand correctly runs A pretty I/O intensive procedure that may not be good to run on an exchange database, is this correct?

What are some of the ways you maintain disk reliability?

 

[Davetoo]

The proper forum would be one of the following:

Exchange 2000:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=858

Exchange 2003:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=955

Exchange 2007:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=1582

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