Defrag Exchange server with Windows Disk Defragmenter

Would like to Defrag my Exchange 2003 Server's C: drive. Information Stores
are located on separate drive already. Transaction logs are located at
c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata. Question is can I defrag the C: Drive
with the Transaction Logs located where they are, or do I need to move them?
The only drive available to move them to is a RAID 5 volume and I don't
really want to do that because of performance issues. Thanks in advance.

cfsmith
Thu May 08 09:26:01 CDT 2008

Defrag aside: Keep in mind that for performance tuning - you'd want to have
the transaction logs on a different drive other than the one holding the
Database files AND the system files.

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Chris S
MCSE, MCITP:Messaging, CISSP


"samgoucher" wrote:

> Would like to Defrag my Exchange 2003 Server's C: drive. Information Stores
> are located on separate drive already. Transaction logs are located at
> c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata. Question is can I defrag the C: Drive
> with the Transaction Logs located where they are, or do I need to move them?
> The only drive available to move them to is a RAID 5 volume and I don't
> really want to do that because of performance issues. Thanks in advance.

andy
Thu May 08 12:26:26 CDT 2008

you can defrag the drive, but it would be best if they weren't terribly
active (perhaps shut down exchange late at night to run the defrag?)

"samgoucher" <samgoucher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:094A1044-8447-4A44-A92E-2749E0397679@microsoft.com...
> Would like to Defrag my Exchange 2003 Server's C: drive. Information
> Stores
> are located on separate drive already. Transaction logs are located at
> c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata. Question is can I defrag the C: Drive
> with the Transaction Logs located where they are, or do I need to move
> them?
> The only drive available to move them to is a RAID 5 volume and I don't
> really want to do that because of performance issues. Thanks in advance.

John
Thu May 08 13:29:58 CDT 2008

See the MSExchangeTeam guidance

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/10/25/247342.aspx



"samgoucher" <samgoucher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:094A1044-8447-4A44-A92E-2749E0397679@microsoft.com...
> Would like to Defrag my Exchange 2003 Server's C: drive. Information
> Stores
> are located on separate drive already. Transaction logs are located at
> c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata. Question is can I defrag the C: Drive
> with the Transaction Logs located where they are, or do I need to move
> them?
> The only drive available to move them to is a RAID 5 volume and I don't
> really want to do that because of performance issues. Thanks in advance.