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