Exchange 2010 being slow
Our Exchange Server 2010 is giving out users a lot of the "Outlook is trying to retrieve data from the Microsoft Exchange server". Its running on Server 2008 R2 SP1 with a Xeon E5-2440, 32GB RAM, and a RAID 5 array w/ 15K SAS drives. The database is getting large - about 275GB. What would cause this to happen all at once? Would separating half the users into another database help? I've got 3 databases now, but 2 are relatively small. HELP!
Hi Pcservne,
Can you please check the below article if its helpful.
https://anandthearchitect.com/2008/01/13/outlook-is-trying-to-retrieve-data-from-microsoft-exchange/
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Can you please check the below article if its helpful.
https://anandthearchitect.com/2008/01/13/outlook-is-trying-to-retrieve-data-from-microsoft-exchange/
Regards,
Doertalk.
"RAID 5 array w/ 15K SAS drives"
Another database isn't going to help with a RAID 5 array. You have basically crippled the machine from the start, as RAID 5 is the slowest RAID version you can have.
A new machine is probably required, which can be configured with a number of RAID 1 or RAID 10 arrays. For that size database you must be moving a lot of data around, so you would need two, or preferably three arrays. (OS, Logs and Database).
Another database will just make things worse.
Simon.
Another database isn't going to help with a RAID 5 array. You have basically crippled the machine from the start, as RAID 5 is the slowest RAID version you can have.
A new machine is probably required, which can be configured with a number of RAID 1 or RAID 10 arrays. For that size database you must be moving a lot of data around, so you would need two, or preferably three arrays. (OS, Logs and Database).
Another database will just make things worse.
Simon.
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Well, there isn't anything I can do about the server hardware now. Besides enabling cached mode on the clients, is there anything I can do to improve performance? Should I combine my 1 large and 2 small databases into 1 database?
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And it is all users
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1.are all the users facing the same issue or only a limited set of users.
2.if only a limited set of users facing the issue, then are those users part of the same database?
- First we need to make sure if its a server side issue or the client end.
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