Best practices for defragmenting thin provisioned storage

Defragmentation is vital to achieve and maintain peak performance. When thin provisioning is implemented on a shared virtualisation host file system, it creates a high degree of probability of thin/dynamic virtual disk files themselves becoming fragmented, adding additional I/O overhead… (more)

Storage checklist

The storage landscape is a changing one, and there are a number of storage options available to businesses today. With the advent of network-attached storage (NAS) (traditionally file level access) and storage area network (SAN) (more focused on block level disk access) units, the notion that storage equals a hard disk is a thing of the past… (more)