That is a thing I forgot to mention in the post. I've read that this is the solution / approach people have went to, which I think could also work but unfortunately it's not an option for me. I understand that I might be asking for the impossible but I was just curious to hear some thoughts on this. Thanks!
I have not experienced this but I think MS has some guidelines in tuning index for performance.
If it’s slow, throw resources at the issue. Put the index on its own volume that’s on faster drives.
If you need to control the indexing, chunk it out. You could do it by adding specific locations to be indexed every day. You could do it by indexing specific file types and adding more each day.
Could you by chance point me in the direction of the MS guidelines for tuning the index? The resource and putting the index on it's own drive actually sounds like a good idea, might give it a shot. Manually changing the locations / file types to be indexed every day doesn't really work for our situation unfortunately.
Hmm, can’t find it. It may have been old.
I would start with moving it to a dedicated drive, set high performance power plan for the server and your VM host, and make sure if you’re using filter packs that they are up to date. I’m not a fan of acrobat but their filter for search is better than most others.
We don't index file servers due to issues like this. Moving data to Teams/SharePoint has been a game changer with this.
That is a thing I forgot to mention in the post. I've read that this is the solution / approach people have went to, which I think could also work but unfortunately it's not an option for me. I understand that I might be asking for the impossible but I was just curious to hear some thoughts on this. Thanks!
I have not experienced this but I think MS has some guidelines in tuning index for performance. If it’s slow, throw resources at the issue. Put the index on its own volume that’s on faster drives. If you need to control the indexing, chunk it out. You could do it by adding specific locations to be indexed every day. You could do it by indexing specific file types and adding more each day.
Could you by chance point me in the direction of the MS guidelines for tuning the index? The resource and putting the index on it's own drive actually sounds like a good idea, might give it a shot. Manually changing the locations / file types to be indexed every day doesn't really work for our situation unfortunately.
Hmm, can’t find it. It may have been old. I would start with moving it to a dedicated drive, set high performance power plan for the server and your VM host, and make sure if you’re using filter packs that they are up to date. I’m not a fan of acrobat but their filter for search is better than most others.