Defragmenting hard drives on Windows Server 2003/SQL Server

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Hi!

I've noticed that in the company where I've recently started to work in
servers hard drives where never defragmented. Servers (windows 2003) are
mounted on Vmware ESX Servers. I've tried to defragment hard drives using
the windows defragmenter, but on some server, especially with huge files
(over 100 Gb database files on partitions with about 200 Gb) some files
where not defragmented.

So, I'm now considering purchasing a third-party defragmenting utility for
doing this. Does it worth investment or most would use the standard
defragmenter?

I like Diskeeper, besides, native windows defragmenter is a reduced part of
Diskeeper. Does it worth investment though? Please, advise, what methods do
you employ for this task? What software is betetr for server machi9nes in
terms of disk defragmentation and does it worth such investment or no?

Your advices are greately appreciated!

Thank you very much!


Zaur
 
Re: Defragmenting hard drives on Windows Server 2003/SQL Server

Personally I like Diskeeper and have been pretty pleased with it when used
on highly fragmented systems.
If this is just a SQL server there are perhaps some other things you could
do to help with performance, and Diskeeper may not even help much after the
initial defrag.

Defrag is great for file servers (or any server where files are being
written/modified/deleted often) but it cant do a whole ton for SQL itself.



"Zaur Bahramov" <zbakhramov@msn.com> wrote in message
news:eWPjGiryIHA.5832@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi!
>
> I've noticed that in the company where I've recently started to work in
> servers hard drives where never defragmented. Servers (windows 2003) are
> mounted on Vmware ESX Servers. I've tried to defragment hard drives using
> the windows defragmenter, but on some server, especially with huge files
> (over 100 Gb database files on partitions with about 200 Gb) some files
> where not defragmented.
>
> So, I'm now considering purchasing a third-party defragmenting utility for
> doing this. Does it worth investment or most would use the standard
> defragmenter?
>
> I like Diskeeper, besides, native windows defragmenter is a reduced part
> of Diskeeper. Does it worth investment though? Please, advise, what
> methods do you employ for this task? What software is betetr for server
> machi9nes in terms of disk defragmentation and does it worth such
> investment or no?
>
> Your advices are greately appreciated!
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
> Zaur
>
 
Re: Defragmenting hard drives on Windows Server 2003/SQL Server

You may find some of these white papers dealing with defrag of servers, from the Diskeeper site useful. Found them just recently, so I haven't finished reading all.

http://downloads.diskeeper.com/pdf/InvisiTasking-White-Paper.pdf
http://files.diskeeper.com/pdf/Virtualization_Performance.pdf
http://files.diskeeper.com/pdf/SQLdefragmented.pdf

Hope this helps.

Zaur Bahramov said:
Hi!

I've noticed that in the company where I've recently started to work in
servers hard drives where never defragmented. Servers (windows 2003) are
mounted on Vmware ESX Servers. I've tried to defragment hard drives using
the windows defragmenter, but on some server, especially with huge files
(over 100 Gb database files on partitions with about 200 Gb) some files
where not defragmented.

So, I'm now considering purchasing a third-party defragmenting utility for
doing this. Does it worth investment or most would use the standard
defragmenter?

I like Diskeeper, besides, native windows defragmenter is a reduced part of
Diskeeper. Does it worth investment though? Please, advise, what methods do
you employ for this task? What software is betetr for server machi9nes in
terms of disk defragmentation and does it worth such investment or no?

Your advices are greately appreciated!

Thank you very much!


Zaur
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Re: Defragmenting hard drives on Windows Server 2003/SQL Server

I've downloaded a trial version of Raxco PerfectDisc 2008 with ESX bundle.
I've noticed that some options are more advanced and also, other that it
offers more convenient payment option (per esx host and not per server), it
also offers multi terrabyte disks. In case of Diskeeper I would have to pay
999 usd for enterprise option.
What are pros and cons for PerfectDisc?


"Zaur Bahramov" <zbakhramov@msn.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:eWPjGiryIHA.5832@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi!
>
> I've noticed that in the company where I've recently started to work in
> servers hard drives where never defragmented. Servers (windows 2003) are
> mounted on Vmware ESX Servers. I've tried to defragment hard drives using
> the windows defragmenter, but on some server, especially with huge files
> (over 100 Gb database files on partitions with about 200 Gb) some files
> where not defragmented.
>
> So, I'm now considering purchasing a third-party defragmenting utility for
> doing this. Does it worth investment or most would use the standard
> defragmenter?
>
> I like Diskeeper, besides, native windows defragmenter is a reduced part
> of Diskeeper. Does it worth investment though? Please, advise, what
> methods do you employ for this task? What software is betetr for server
> machi9nes in terms of disk defragmentation and does it worth such
> investment or no?
>
> Your advices are greately appreciated!
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
> Zaur
>
 
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