Database has reached its maximum size limit
Topic Last Modified: 2008-04-18
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager monitors the Windows Application log on computers that are running Exchange Server 2007 and generates this alert when the event or events specified in the following Details table are logged.
To learn more about this alert, if you are using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, do one or more of the following:
From the Operator Console, select this alert, and then click the Properties tab. Review the description of the alert that includes the variables specific to your environment.
From the Operator Console, click the Events tab, and then double-click the event in the list for which you want to review the event description. Review the events that have been logged that meet the criteria of this Operations Manager alert.
To learn more about this alert, if you are using System Center Operations Manager 2007, do one or more of the following:
From the Operations Console, double-click this alert, and then click the General tab. Review the description of the alert that includes the variables specific to your environment.
From the Operations Console, double-click this alert, and then click the Alert Context tab. Review the events that have been logged that meet the criteria of this Operations Manager alert.
Details
Product Name |
Exchange |
Product Version |
8.0 (Exchange Server 2007) |
Event ID |
445 |
Event Source |
ESE |
Alert Type |
Warning |
MOM Rule Path |
Microsoft Exchange Server/Exchange 2007/Common Components/Extensible Storage Engine |
MOM Rule Name |
Database has reached its maximum size limit. Perform offline defragmentation, or temporarily increase the database size limit, or upgrade to Exchange Enterprise Edition. |
Explanation
This Warning event indicates that the maximum size of this database has been reached. The default database size limit for the original release of Exchange 2007 Standard Edition is 50 gigabytes (GB). The default database size limit for the Service Pack 1 release of Exchange 2007 Standard Edition is 250 GB. This limit can be changed by using this process. The Information Store database size for both the Standard and the Enterprise Edition is limited only by disk space.
User Action
To resolve this warning, do one of the following:
If there is free disk space, increase the size limit for the database specified in the event description. For information about how to do this, see How to Modify a Database Size Limit.
If there is no free disk space, perform an offline defragmentation of the database to reduce its size. Run eseutil /d to perform an offline defragmentation.
When you perform an offline defragmentation, the resulting database size of 50 GB or more may still be too large to leave in production. In this case, you can install additional hard disk space on your existing server. Or, you can add a second Exchange server in the same Administrative Group and use Move Mailbox to move half of the mailboxes to another server. Then you can perform offline defragmentation on the original server again to further reduce the size of the database. Alternatively, you can remove information from several user mailboxes and perform offline defragmentation.
For More Information
To search the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles based on criteria that generated this alert, visit the Search the Support Knowledge Base (KB) Web site.
To review Exchange 2007 event message articles that may not be represented by Exchange 2007 MOM alerts, see the Events and Errors Message Center.
If you are not already doing so, consider running the tools that Microsoft Exchange offers to help administrators analyze and troubleshoot their Exchange environment. These tools can help you make sure that your configuration is in line with Microsoft best practices. They can also help you identify and resolve performance issues, improve mail flow, and better manage disaster recovery scenarios. Go to the Toolbox node of the Exchange Management Console to run these tools now. For more information about these tools, see Toolbox in the Exchange Server 2007 Help.