Every so often there is a question: "Should we run file-level defragmentation software on Exchange servers?" Usually, this comes from confusion that file system defragmentation actually helps Exc...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Às reply to TJ, I do agree that - at first - it does help to first Defrag your system before creating a store.
However, in our case the data stores are moved/created to a completely different volume which was completely empy - just formatted.
After migrating all our data from groupwise and a month worth of production, our database has grown to 81GB... when using the analyze feature of defrag I only see a huge amount of red and next to none of blue lines...
Perhaps this is due to the nature of the Jetbase engine. Personally I like the system of Oracle better where the database has a particular filesize to start with so there simply won't be any fragmentation. (provided ofcause again that the drive was unfragmented to start with.)
However, in our case the data stores are moved/created to a completely different volume which was completely empy - just formatted.
After migrating all our data from groupwise and a month worth of production, our database has grown to 81GB... when using the analyze feature of defrag I only see a huge amount of red and next to none of blue lines...
Perhaps this is due to the nature of the Jetbase engine. Personally I like the system of Oracle better where the database has a particular filesize to start with so there simply won't be any fragmentation. (provided ofcause again that the drive was unfragmented to start with.)