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Defrag on EVA vdisk presented to Windows Server 2003

 
Eddie Annang
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‎09-26-2005 02:43 AM

‎09-26-2005 02:43 AM

Defrag on EVA vdisk presented to Windows Server 2003

Hi, has anyone had to defrag an EVA vdisk presented to a Windows Server 2003? What is the recommended tool to use?

Pointers to any reference material would also be much appreciated.

Thanks.
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Steven Clementi
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‎09-26-2005 03:22 AM

‎09-26-2005 03:22 AM

Re: Defrag on EVA vdisk presented to Windows Server 2003

Eddie:


There have been several posts about this. I think the general concensus was that your standard defrag would be ok since what your doing is just re-arranging blocks of data so that it is contigious on one section of your logical disk, not starttered all over.

Since your data is scattered all over a Disk Group anyway on an EVA, I am not sure how much more performance this would give you, but some seem to think it helps, even just a little.


Steven
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