Actually the newest versions of DiskKeeper are VM aware and can defragment
internally and externally. I am not aware of any other VM aware (Hyper-V)
defragment utilities.
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Geoff N. Hiten
Principal SQL Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
"karamatic" <karamatic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I was wondering if - since defragging is a physical operation which
> re-allocates clusters in order to gain performance - running a defrag
> from a "virtual" OS makes sense or not, since actually everthing in
> the disk is, in the end, a single vhd file.
> Consider I have a few VMs (1 .vhd each ) running under Virtual Server,
> all hosted on 1 host (1 SAN disk each VM).
> I guess defragging the host's disk makes more sense...
> Am I missing something?
> thanks!
>
> k