Enterprise Vault "Exchange Mailbox Analyzer"
Dear Experts,
I've been running the EV Exchange Mailbox Analyzer on our single EV 7.5 SP3 server, running under MS WIndows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 2., to try and gain some stats, so that we can size our replacement EV environment correctly. We will, like as not, upgrade though version 8 to version 9 and if appropriate / available, to version 10.We have two Exchange 2007 servers in CCR configuration.
The EMA has been challenging: it runs very slowly. the popular wisdom was that the EMA would take 'a couple of hours' to examine about 500 mailboxes. I've had several attempts and the latest is still running having analyzed 409 out of the sample 516, leaving only 107 to do. The task has taken 7 full days to get this far and I'm pleased that it doesn't appear to have caused any performance woes.
However, about an hour ago, the EMA did something very annoying and frustrating: The panel that shows which servers it was running against, how many mailboxes it has processed and so on has 'greyed out' leaving me no clues at all, regarding whether its still running or how many mailboxes remain to be processed.
One of the SQL DBA's looked at the created database and confirmed that 409 mailboxes appear to have been dealt with abnd that the analyzer appears to still be running, I cannot afford to lose another week because of this EMA tool having such tendencies. Does anyone have any wise words ? Is there any way to 'refresh' the EMA application panel, so that it will enlighten me regarding current progress ?
The only straws I have to clutch are that Task Manager suggests the EMA is still running and the SQL DBA advises that three more mailboxe have been processed.
Appreciate your guidance !
thanks
How long it takes is going to vary. I recently ran EMA for a 1200 user environment analyzing 15% of the mailboxes with the Enable Full analysis box checked and it took over 9 hours.