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Best practice for defragging vms stored on vnx5300
What is the best practice for defragging vms stored on vnx5300?
Thanks in advanced.
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May 2nd, 2016 12:00
What is the best practice for defragging vms stored on vnx5300?
Thanks in advanced.
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MasterofKarate
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May 11th, 2016 18:00
Ideally, turning off defrag at the VM level is the way to go. Especially for arrays that have flash utilized as a tier in a storage pool --- defragging is one of the worst things to do to flash cells.
You will be better suited to ensure that disk alignment is properly configured at the VMFS/ESXi level (VMFS volumes are automatically aligned when formatted using the GUI/vSphere client) and the OS level (Windows 2008 and newer automatically align the offset to 1 MB).
Rainer_EMC
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May 3rd, 2016 11:00
I don't think VM level defrag makes sense
brettesinclair
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May 3rd, 2016 15:00
best practice is not to do it !