Using the automatic reseed feature

One of the new features in Exchange 2013 is automatic reseed, or in short, auto reseed. This feature is one of my personal favorites of the new ones, as it minimizes the amount of work an administrator needs to do if a disk is broken and needs to be replaced and if the database needs to be reseeded. However, be aware of the fact that the administrator needs to replace the broken disk(s).

We will walk through a simple setup using one mailbox database using this feature.

How to do it...

1. Start with configuring the DAG with the folder structure using the following command syntax:

   Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAG `
   -AutoDagDatabasesRootFolderPath "C:\ExDbs"
   Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAG `-AutoDagVolumesRootFolderPath "C:\ExVols"
   Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAG `-AutoDagDatabaseCopiesPerVolume 1
   

2. Next, verify the changes. Use the Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlet, as shown:

   Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAG | Format-List *auto*
   

3. Create the folder structure...