Diskeeper at TechEd in New Orleans
We'll be at TechEd June 6th-10th in New Orleans enjoying cajun cooking and talking up Diskeeper 2010 and the upcoming V-locity 2.0 release. Stop by our booth (#1941)
WHS “Vail” storage provisioning
As a Gold Partner, the first commercial defragmenter designed for WHS, and even one of the first 8 products to declare support for WHS when Bill Gates first announced it at CES several years back, we’ve been real close with the development team at MS. [...]
Windows IT Pro Webinar – Should I defrag my SAN?
Later this month (Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 12:00pm Eastern / 9:00am Pacific), IT Analyst David Chernicoff and I will co-host a webinar covering the benefits and caveats of defragmenting SAN attached servers. Here is the abstract: As storage technologies have become more advanced there [...]
Tips and Tricks: reclaiming licenses from decommissioned computers
Diskeeper Administrator can be used to remotely "un-install" Diskeeper from computers, and reclaim the software license to be re-used on another system. However, decommissioning a machine isn't always planned, and even when it is, removing software is not likely part of the process. In such cases, you can still [...]
Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks (DPAN) 3.0 is released
We just updated and released a new version of a popular freeware product for IT Professionals managing Windows networks. The DPAN 3.0 feature set was already included in Diskeeper Administrator 2010 release, but is now available independently (and free). Specifically the DPAN 3.0 free app [...]
Are You Using Hyper-V or ESX?
We're looking for some current Diskeeper or V-locity customers that are interested in field testing a major new V-locity release. The new version will support both Hyper-V and ESX (3.5 and 4.0). The field tests will start in a few weeks. If you are a current [...]
Do you still need HyperFast if you have TRIM?
Last month we were a guest on a Microsoft-hosted webinar covering Windows 7, TRIM, and the continuing need for HyperFast. The presentation focused on the most current releases of SSDs from many of the top SSD vendors (Asax, Apacer, Kingston, Micron and OCZ), who were kind enough to provide us [...]
SSD review
In anticipation of an upcoming presentation (March 10) from Microsoft promoting SSDs, and best practices for optimizing SSDs, is a HyperFast review by V3 (from last year). They tested HyperFast to see what benefit it would provide. Read it here.
Defrag SAN, Defrag VMware, Defrag Hyper-V? You should read this…
If you're looking to defragment SANs (Storage Area Networks) or VMs (virtual machines), you're on the right track. But, there are things you need to be aware of. Defragmenting SAN attached storage and VMs can require planning, implementation, and configuration that is generally unnecessary with direct attached storage [...]
Defrag for Faster VMware Performance
The chart below present results from testing our engineers did in conjuction with engineers at a longtime Diskeeper customer, Solvay Pharmaceuticals (now Abbott), last summer. The tests, done on VMware ESX 3.5 with direct attached storage (DAS), were specifically "proof of concept" that Windows Guest VMs need to be defragmented. [...]