Hi all,
While troubleshooting an user's complain about slow access to his mailbox on a Windows 2012/Exchange 2013 environment, I came across this interesting behavior:
Disk utilization on the server will increase from 100KBps to 3000KBps (on average) and stay high for a good 10 hours or so. Then disk activity will go down for exactly 24 hours from the time it was up and increase again for another cycle.
Basically, no matter how long it takes to go down, it will increase again 24 hours later. Looking at Perfmon and Resource Manager all I could see during both periods is that store.worker.exe is always on top, and READ has higher values. The issue does not
appear to be related to business hours / backup window / client access to exchange, as it occurs at different times of the day and changes everyday.
I believe it has something to do with an internal maintenance/reporting/monitoring feature of Exchange 2013, as it happens on 3 Exchange environments we manage, completely apart from each other.
Microsoft Exchange Health Manager service has already been disabled as well as scheduled tasks under Microsoft/Windows/PLA and they all proved not to make a difference.
Any ideas out there?
Diego de Azevedo IT Analyst - MCSE, MCITP