exchange database 20 GB over size
Exchange 2010 SP1 . 16 GB of RAM and dual CPU .
Our exchange server data store is about 105 GB on disk.
When I export mailbox sizes to excel (from shell) , The whole thing is about 80 GB .
Two questions :
1- what else can cause mail store to be 20 GB over estimated size ?
2- Is 100 GB too big ? server runs smoothly at the time.
Radweld
There is white space left over from when you remove mail from the system but this eventually gets purged in time. Microsoft recommend on a single mailbox server that the database size should be capped at 200gb however databases can grow upto 18 tb. Don't worry about the size too much unless disk space is at a premium.
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database maintenance runs every night , still we have white space ? I though they fixed this issue in 2010.
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Actually akhater, the recommendations are upto 200 gb when no resilience is in place ie DAG the recommended max size when in a dag is 2tb and the max supported size is 18tb.,
Radweld actually the max supported size is 16,000 GB just a bit below 16GB.
16TB is the absolute maximum FILE size on a NTFS volume with a 64k cluster.
the maximum recommended size of a edb is 2TB 200~250 was in the exchange 2007 days.
Microsoft recommends a lower size for non dags just to have a faster backup/restore but surely going over 200gb is no issue at all I have never heard of the 200gb thing on exchange 2010. If you have any reference to support your saying it would be good
16TB is the absolute maximum FILE size on a NTFS volume with a 64k cluster.
the maximum recommended size of a edb is 2TB 200~250 was in the exchange 2007 days.
Microsoft recommends a lower size for non dags just to have a faster backup/restore but surely going over 200gb is no issue at all I have never heard of the 200gb thing on exchange 2010. If you have any reference to support your saying it would be good
just a bit below 16TB * sorry