Tanus Sacin
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Exchange 2007 DataBases
Hello there,
I have an exchange 2007 in a cluster, and I have divide all the roles in 2, so i have 2 CAS, 2 HT, 2 MB, the logs are on the local disks, but the DBs are on a SAN.
I have 10 DBs on my exchange server, each DB is for a different office, i have removed over 500 Users, including their mailboxes, and I want to recover the space, so I am looking for an advice on how to proceed, I would like to defrag the DBs like I did on 2003, but I am not aware on how would be the best way on getting the same job on 2007 and having a less impact to my users, my idea is the following:
1) bring down 1 DB
2) run eseutil /D
3) bring DB up
pretty straight forward, but my concern is, would this affect the replication since I am on a cluster? what would be the cons, on doing this in a cluster configuration?
Thanks
I have an exchange 2007 in a cluster, and I have divide all the roles in 2, so i have 2 CAS, 2 HT, 2 MB, the logs are on the local disks, but the DBs are on a SAN.
I have 10 DBs on my exchange server, each DB is for a different office, i have removed over 500 Users, including their mailboxes, and I want to recover the space, so I am looking for an advice on how to proceed, I would like to defrag the DBs like I did on 2003, but I am not aware on how would be the best way on getting the same job on 2007 and having a less impact to my users, my idea is the following:
1) bring down 1 DB
2) run eseutil /D
3) bring DB up
pretty straight forward, but my concern is, would this affect the replication since I am on a cluster? what would be the cons, on doing this in a cluster configuration?
Thanks
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To see the list of mailboxes on a database before deleting the database:
Get-mailboxdatabase -identity "your database name" | get-mailbox
Get-mailboxdatabase -identity "your database name" | get-mailbox
ASKER
how much space would i need to move all the mailboxes? let says that myt DB is 131GB, so do i need 131GB a least in order to do this? or i need more?
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,databasesize,availabl enewmailbo xspace -auto
Avaialblenewmailboxspace is the space that you can recover after defragmentation. Check the total size and subtract Avaialblenewmailboxspace. That is the space you will require for the new database.
Avaialblenewmailboxspace is the space that you can recover after defragmentation. Check the total size and subtract Avaialblenewmailboxspace. That is the space you will require for the new database.
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,databasesize,availabl enewmailbo xspace -auto
Avaialblenewmailboxspace is the space that you can recover after defragmentation. Check the total size and subtract Avaialblenewmailboxspace. That is the space you will require for the new database.
Avaialblenewmailboxspace is the space that you can recover after defragmentation. Check the total size and subtract Avaialblenewmailboxspace. That is the space you will require for the new database.
ASKER
when i ran the Get-MailboxDatabase i only get
name
Server
StorageGroup
Recovery
I dont get the databasezie or the availablenewmailboxspace
name
Server
StorageGroup
Recovery
I dont get the databasezie or the availablenewmailboxspace
-status
-status
ASKER
i did use the -status.
Sorry boss I wa assuming exchange 2010.
Sorry boss I wa assuming exchange 2010.
Moreover, eseutil needs another 110% of your database size to function correctly.
You don't gain much by running eseutil as opposed to letting exchange use the white space.