Matthew McDermott is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems and a Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Matthew writes about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity. Catapult Systems is a national Microsoft-focused IT consulting company that provides application development, enterprise solutions and infrastructure services.
A recent blog post by Matthew, entitled Hard Disk Optimization on Hyper-V, relayed his recent experience with PerfectDisk to support his SharePoint 2010 demo environment. In order to support this environment, he used Hyper-V, and realized that he had some pretty big VHDs. Not that the large VHD files were a problem, but he wanted to optimize his disk environment. He chose PerfectDisk "because they have a comprehensive suite of options that cover every platform that I use (Windows 7, Windows Server, Hyper-V and Windows Home Server). One brand to cover all of your options, I love it."
McDermott writes about his experience and thoughts on PerfectDisk for virtualization defrag with Hyper-V, Windows Home Server and the Enterprise Console. He sums it all up with his "proof," which included a boot time defrag to obtain "the best possible defragmentation." Stating that he has "very simple requirements, make my drives smaller and don't impact performance." PerfectDisk delivered, allowing Matthew to recover 58.4 GB of disk space.
There's more, including "the aftermath." You can read about the follow-up and the entire exercise here.
And defrag hard disk the MVP way.
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