Recent content by gshayes

possible catch-22. If guests (or standalone systems) are heavily fragmented, more I/O gets generated to the SAN than needs to be. So, you can saturate your SAN either way. What can be benchmarked is that even virtualized guests see an improvement in throughput if defragmented. So, to...

Guess you've never attended one of my presentations - where the advice is free :)

Another way to view the webinar recording - Windows Media Player (.wmv). http://ftp.raxco.com/pub/download/multimedia/webinars/VirtualWebinar.wmv

There's many places where you need to look at and think about performace. Not only at the guest level but also at the SAN level and whatever you can do in the virtualization software. This includes formatting drives along cluster boundries, using proper cluster size for NTFS, having adequate...

"except you're forgetting that multiple logical io requests are effectively combined to a single block request by esx. See my point 2 above." From NTFS's point - NTFS doesn't know this or even care. NTFS is doing it's own logical requests - which is completely independent of how these...

This thread was pointed out to me by somebody who thought I might be able to help clarify some things. Disclaimer time. I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a Microsoft Certified defragmenter. Raxco is also a VMware partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and is part of...