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Have a HP Proliant DL380 G4 with a Smart Array 6i RAID controller. &nbsp;Runs Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003.<br />
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It was configured as one big RAID 5 array.<br />
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Windows shows the drive very fragmented. &nbsp;Two questions:<br />
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1. Can you use the Windows defrag on a RAID array?<br />
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2. Any special issues since the server is running Exchange?<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Have a HP Proliant DL380 G4 with a Smart Array 6i RAID controller.  Runs Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003.

It was configured as one big RAID 5 array.

Windows shows the drive very fragmented.  Two questions:

1. Can you use the Windows defrag on a RAID array?

2. Any special issues since the server is running Exchange?

Thanks



Windows defrag on an Exchnge 2003 server

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.