topic Exchange Online Database Defrag in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Exchange-Online-Database-Defrag/m-p/15584#M3530 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi guys;</P><P></P><P>We have a Exchange Deployment where we're using SnapManager for Exchange to protect the exchange datastores.&nbsp; Every so often, a snapshot becomes significantly larger than we would expect.&nbsp; We beleive this may be due to the Online Defrag operation that Exchange (in our case 2007) runs periodically.</P><P></P><P>I understand this defrag operation needs to run for Exchange to maintain its database, but are there some changes we can make to minimise the impact to snapshot space and replication?&nbsp; Can it be adjusted to run less frequently, or carry out less aggressive operations, or is it just something to live with?</P><P></P><P>I'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer!</P><P>-- <BR />Mark Lomas</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:50:05 GMT marklomas 2025-06-05T06:50:05Z Exchange Online Database Defrag https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Exchange-Online-Database-Defrag/m-p/15584#M3530 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi guys;</P><P></P><P>We have a Exchange Deployment where we're using SnapManager for Exchange to protect the exchange datastores.&nbsp; Every so often, a snapshot becomes significantly larger than we would expect.&nbsp; We beleive this may be due to the Online Defrag operation that Exchange (in our case 2007) runs periodically.</P><P></P><P>I understand this defrag operation needs to run for Exchange to maintain its database, but are there some changes we can make to minimise the impact to snapshot space and replication?&nbsp; Can it be adjusted to run less frequently, or carry out less aggressive operations, or is it just something to live with?</P><P></P><P>I'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer!</P><P>-- <BR />Mark Lomas</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:50:05 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Exchange-Online-Database-Defrag/m-p/15584#M3530 marklomas 2025-06-05T06:50:05Z Exchange Online Database Defrag https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Exchange-Online-Database-Defrag/m-p/15590#M3534 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Mark,</P><P></P><P>How often do you run your backups and whats your retention policy on the snapshots. Do know you teh change rate happening on the Exchangd databases?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P><P>Kumar</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:30:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Exchange-Online-Database-Defrag/m-p/15590#M3534 chittur 2011-07-21T20:30:43Z