Just thought I'd add something to this old thread....I just noticed this week that Operations Manager 2007 is now reporting on agent performance for Logical Disk Fragmentation, and has a handy task that will defrag the server remotely when you click on it. There is also a Recovery set up (which is disabled by default) that will perform a defrag automatically when they are checked and found to be needing it. You have to set up an override to do this but it will be quite sweet when it runs automatically.
2009/12/18 Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > The screen saver option was what I was referring to… > > > > *From:* Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:27 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Defragmenting servers > > > > That lets you schedule a defrag, but then it appears to run at full speed. > Diskeeper is always looking for idle time and tries not to impact server > performance. Is there some option in MyDefrag that I did not see for > continuous defrag? > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:25 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Defragmenting servers > > > > Mydefrag. > > > > *From:* Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:40 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Defragmenting servers > > > > “The only real benefit of a commercial product is they tend to be less > obtrusive to the users when they kick off” - I don’t agree with this at > all. > > > > I use Diskeeper because it defragments continuously using only idle server > time. What free product will do this? > > > > Tom > > > > *From:* Alex French [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:07 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Defragmenting servers > > > > Hi, > > > We use Diskeeper (terrible product - forever crashing) to defrag our entire > server estate. It's got a central management console but I believe Perfect > disk is a better product. > > > > It depends on the number of users accessing the data and how big your > volumes are. You can get a very real performance degradation if you have 15 > million fragmented files (especially if some are large). > > > Also - boot time CHKDSKs can be improved if the volume is defragged. > > > > The only real benefit of a commercial product is they tend to be less > obtrusive to the users when they kick off. File re-ordering can be useful on > some systems but it depends if it's SAN storage with large cache or local > storage with very little cache... > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
