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Exchange 2013 Content Indexes filling up drives

I have an issue with my Exchange 2013 on 2012R2. The Content index files \ms\%default folder are consuming a large amount of space. We have a DAG with 3 databases.

DB1 - Size: 294GB, Index files are 140GB.
DB2 - Size: 29.53GB, Index files are 2.95GB.
DB3 - Size 128GB, Index files are 43.23.

With some searching I found that the DB1, and DB2 index folders seem to be a normal size which is 10% to 20% ish of the size of the db. However, DB1 is closer to 50%. I have attempted a restart and update of the servers in the DAG, they seem to be growing faster than I can give disk space.

viktor grant

Hi Brandon,

What are the status of the index?

When you run Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus *

It is healthy status?

You can try to rebuild the index.

Cheers

Brandon Miller

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I have not attempted to rebuild the index I have never attempted this on a dag. Is there a TechNet article for reference on doing this on a dag a quick search didn't really give me any good results.

They all look health, sorry missed a database in my earlier post.

Name Status CopyQueue ReplayQueue LastInspectedLogTime ContentIndex
Length Length State
---- ------ --------- ----------- -------------------- ------------
DB1\MAIL Mounted 0 0 Healthy
DB2\MAIL Healthy 0 0 11/30/2017 2:15:35 PM Healthy
DB3\MAIL Healthy 0 1 11/30/2017 2:16:07 PM Healthy
DB4\MAIL Healthy 0 1 11/30/2017 2:16:06 PM Healthy
SODB\MAIL Mounted 0 0 Healthy
DB4\MAIL3 Mounted 0 0 Healthy
DB2\MAIL3 Healthy 0 0 11/30/2017 2:15:35 PM Healthy
DB3\MAIL3 Healthy 0 1 11/30/2017 2:16:07 PM Healthy
DB1\MAIL3 Healthy 0 1 11/30/2017 2:16:06 PM Healthy
DB4\MAIL2 Healthy 0 1 11/30/2017 2:16:06 PM Healthy
DB3\MAIL2 Mounted 0 0 Healthy
DB2\MAIL2 Mounted 0 0 Healthy
DB1\CMAIL2 Healthy 0 1 11/30/2017 2:16:06 PM Healthy

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