VMware reaffirms PerfectDisk’s Elite status

A few years ago, Raxco Software introduced the industry’s first VMware optimization technology with PerfectDisk 2008. The market was moving to virtualization, and many of our customers told us that they either needed at the time, or would soon, a PerfectDisk solution that took into account the various intricacies of virtualization.

The following year saw the release of the PerfectDisk 10 family of products that included the industry’s first ever, centrally manageable defragmentation client that was both aware of its virtual existence and able to dynamically adjust its resource consumption behavior with respect to its physical server load — Virtual Awareness. Continue reading

Windows IT Pro on VMware ESX disk configuration

Alan Sugano, president of ADS Consulting Group, which specializes in networking, custom programming, Microsoft .NET Web development, and SQL Server development, recently penned an article in Windows IT Pro Magazine entitled VMware ESX Disk Configuration Options. Continue reading

ESX and vSphere defrag

We’re receiving more and more inquiries on disk defragmentation for ESX, vSphere and Hyper-V. As IT professionals become more immersed in virtualization, they are beginning to understand how performing vSphere defrag, for example, can lead to vastly improved virtualization performance. It’s not only that fragmentation is a problem in virtual environments because it’s the same ol’ NTFS file system. Fragmentation can be an even greater problem when looking at the relationship of host and guests. IO throughput is the big issue here, and that’s where defragmentation can make a big impact on virtualization performance. Continue reading