Exchange 5.5 disk space

[TLC001]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to move the current exhange 5.5 *.edb files on the D: drive to another drive on the network. Like a Left Hand network storage device???

I am currently running very low on disk space on the mail server.

Thanks,

TL

 

[dennisbbb]

Shortterm: Consider adding a harddisk to the server and run optimizer to move the edb's to this new disk.

Longterm: Upgrade to a faster and bigger server.

Putting these store files on network shares is just asking for lots of trouble.

 

[TLC001]

Hi Dennisbbb,

Can it be done? We are have over 1TB of storage on our LeftHand Networks SAN storage? I think it iSCSI and IP SAN device.

We do plan to migrate away from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003, but not at the moment.

Thanks

TL

 

[dennisbbb]

It can be done, however, due to the high i/o of Exchange server accessing these store files, you will run into problems, especially if you have a bad combination of a high number of users, a slow NAS, and a slow network link.

Run optimizer or edit the registry manually to change the path of these store files.

 

[dennisbbb]

If you run into problem with the Optimizer due to your network share, just use regedit to manually change path.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314916

 

[TLC001]

Thanks

TL

 

[TLC001]

I will give that a try today. Found out that the server went down late last night due to disk space.

Since, it is running on a Windows 2000 Server wirh Exchange 5.5. I think I might be able to defrag the database "pub.edb" and priv.edb using an external USB drive with a USB 2.0 card just to clean up the database and bring it back online.

Much thanks dennisbbb.

TL