The only technology that prevents up to 85% of fragmentation before it can happen. In addition to writing larger sequential disk I/Os from Windows VMs (for much better overall performance), it makes less work for copy-on-write technology which copies/tracks every write. Less need for defrag means less writes to track and fewer I/Os used.

V-locity automatically detects special virtual disk types such as the VMware Linked Clones and Microsoft’s Differencing Disks and creates as close to a zero fragmentation state as possible to avoid having data movement from defrag recorded to “change disks”. This results in faster performance for users of these special disks.

Applications and services within VMs cannot effectively prioritize I/O because they have limited knowledge of Host hardware resource usage. Without InvisiTasking, a background defrag process will cut across the production needs of other VMs. InvisiTasking guarantees completely invisible optimization of all Windows operating systems on supported virtualization platforms. It also eliminates the need for scheduling or monitoring defrag where it’s needed, even when VMs are dynamically added or removed.

Over time, Thin/Dynamic disks only ever grow. They never shrink by themselves, even if data is deleted, because they accumulate free space “holes” that will never be reused. These holes take up space on the host file system that could otherwise be allocate for other VMs. Virtual Disk Compaction provides a GUI showing how much space can be saved with compaction and also provides a one-click ability to initiate this compaction.