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Okay, so I did exchange for years from 5.5 to 2010. Then I handed it off to a new coworker like 4 years ago. We are on exchange 2013 now, peachy, and I've barely looked at or touched it he's been dealing with it all.
So we got a new backup solution (Rubrik) and I get to deal with the backups for everything.
So here's the setup (1-DAG) - 4 Servers
16 databases - 500gb drive each (WTF!! is the first thing in my head) especially since each db floats around 450gb.
8 databases replicated between 2 servers. (so we basically have this x2)
For our size 2-4 servers is fine, maybe a little overkill but our users are a bit on the heavy side. But these are all running enterprise. We could be running 1-TB each, with half the number of databases.
In the direction of backups this creates an issue as I try to run a volume backup and the VSS snapshot maxes out the space before it's finished (primarily the 1st initial backup)
Now on the other side of things. His answer to the disk space is, oh well I defragment a DB every month, by moving it all to another DB, shrink the original and move it all back. (This will completely mess up change block tracking as they'll all essentially change.. WTH? Plus the whole process recovers 50gb of whitespace. Which okay I get exchange doesn't exactly do it's best with defrags, and using empty space. But moving 400 gb of data to get maybe 50gb back, which it will probably use in 2 weeks for between mail coming in, and stuff moving around.
My current thought is to add 200gb of space to each database drive, and tell him to stop the moving stuff around unless their's something wrong. Am I missing something here? I've already convinced him to switch to the vmxnet3 driver which should speed stuff up, as well as let the system use the full 10gb physical nic.
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