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March 04, 2006
Defrag your virtual servers daily!
Several months ago I blogged on the importance of defragmenting virtual servers. I was very pleased to see a recent article in Redmond Magazine discussing VMware, storage virtualization and defragmentation. The following is a choice quote from the article:
"Defragment the host's disks as often as possible. Members of the VMware community recommend doing so on a daily basis. With VMware's disk files often consuming gigabytes of space for a single file, even a little fragmentation can significantly impact performance."
More and more people are recognizing the need for daily defragmentation in today's storage environment. A daily schedule keeps defrag jobs short and handles fragmentation as it occurs.
Have you defragged today?
-Paul
Posted by paul.shomo at March 4, 2006 12:04 AM
Comments
Paul --
You are absolutely right. I just have a stand-alone desktop, but my system runs so much better when the disks are defragged regularly. I use Diskeeper Pro Premier 10, and it does an outstanding job on my system. My primary defrag is smart scheduling on all drives and I-FAAST on my NTFS drives.
However, there's one problem I've run into. I do a lot of program installation and testing, and I depend on Norton's GoBack to recover from a bad installation, which happens more often than I would like.
Sometimes Diskeeper, as well as other defraggers I've tried, causes GoBack to suspend its logging because of "massive file movement" (or something of that order), which means that I can't create system safe points in order to recover from bad installations. The only way I've been able to keep this from happening is to disable Diskeeper when I'm planning to install programs.
But have no fear! Diskeeper does an excellent job with the defragging once I've gone back to regular activity.
Posted by: Harry Parker at March 4, 2006 09:19 AM