2010 mailbox move

where are actually performing the mailbox move?  you should use Exchange 2010 to do the actual move, by creating a move request.

You need to pull to Exchange 2010 and not push from Exchange 2003

I have done quite a lot of 2003 to 2010 move and they fly

I'm in 2010 pulling the old mailbox over. Right now it's been 8 hours and only 61% complete on a 1.76gb mailbox.

Magapie - are you using local disk storage on both Servers?  If so, this is def your problem.  The GB link speed is not going to matter, it is all about disk i/o.  If you are using SAN's you would be getting those 2GB mailboxes finished in under 20 minutes.  Of course, this point assume you are using local storage.

Well this is a small office and there is no san. These servers are not under any i/o stress.

It is not the "stress" factor, it is literally the speed of the SAS drives and/or configuration.  Such as what RAID, what kind of drivers, speed of drives etc.

I would run Perfmon while you're moving a mailbox and look at your disk I/O counters.  I bet you that will tell you more than anything.

I skipped using 999 and it still stalls out. It's not a san issue. I deal with disk i/o all day long. If it was the disk it would just be slow. This is stalling out at 25%. Is there a verbose logging or error log?

http://msexchangehelp.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/exchange-2010-move-request-configure-improve-performance/

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/management-administration/moving-mailboxes-exchange-2010-part4.html

Those are good articles. The performance issue has more to do with moving multiple mailboxes. I'm just trying to move one at a time. it stops on 25% then takes hours to finish.

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MoveRequest | ?{$_.status -eq "InProgress"}| Get-MoveRequestStatistics | ft Disp*,Per*,Byte
sTransferredPerMinute

DisplayName                                                     PercentComplete BytesTransferredPerMinute
-----------                                                     --------------- -------------------------
Eric Middleton                                                               10 67.86 KB (69,492 bytes)

As you can see it is crawling.

Damm that is really slow, assume the nework between 2003 and 2010 is good?

On a LAN i have been getting upto 100MB/sec

did the move complete? How long did it take?

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