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low exchange 2016 storage space
Hello Team, I only have 3% storage space left on my Exchange 2016 Server. 1. I cannot move the database because I have no space on my SAN 2. "White space" is not enough to defragment 3. Is it c...
- Dynamic disks are supported but I can't find anything about converting on a live server.
If this is a single server couldn't you just use the 50GB to add a new volume, create a new database and move some mailboxes to it to make some white space?
Obviously you can't move too many since you'll be creating log files on the target volume, although they'll be purged with a backup.
Alternatively depending how much space your logs take up daily you could add the 50GB as a new volume and move the log folder to it, obviously you'd need to dismount the database to do that.
Dynamic disks are supported but I can't find anything about converting on a live server.
If this is a single server couldn't you just use the 50GB to add a new volume, create a new database and move some mailboxes to it to make some white space?
Obviously you can't move too many since you'll be creating log files on the target volume, although they'll be purged with a backup.
Alternatively depending how much space your logs take up daily you could add the 50GB as a new volume and move the log folder to it, obviously you'd need to dismount the database to do that.
If this is a single server couldn't you just use the 50GB to add a new volume, create a new database and move some mailboxes to it to make some white space?
Obviously you can't move too many since you'll be creating log files on the target volume, although they'll be purged with a backup.
Alternatively depending how much space your logs take up daily you could add the 50GB as a new volume and move the log folder to it, obviously you'd need to dismount the database to do that.