This brief discusses how the Windows Built-in Disk Defragmenter was originally designed as a band-aid for low active systems and, although it has evolved, Diskeeper® and V-locity® have evolved leaps and bounds in this same time period to keep up with the ever-evolving technologies, such as Virtualization and the huge growth demands for storage capacity.
This brief discusses some of the myths and concerns regarding defragmentation on SAN devices. In most cases, a “standard disk defragmenter” should not be run on a SAN device, but Diskeeper® and V-locity® are not “standard disk defragmenters.” They are storage optimisers that contain technology and innovations that are designed for these specific types of
The efficient use of I/O resources directly affects performance and operating costs throughout a system, network, Virtual and Cloud environment. Despite advances in hardware speed and storage technology, file and free space fragmentation has become more of an issue, not less of one. Fragmentation creates profound performance waste at the O/S level and is the
The task of maintaining peak performance is critical for the modern storage administrator. More and more mission-critical applications rely on the shared storage infrastructure for real-time activity, and enterprise-level businesses are graduating live workstations and production servers to SAN systems. Meanwhile, the potential for resource bottlenecks becomes more complicated due to the necessary interoperability of