Virtual Machine Performance Tip: Defragmentation

December 30, 2010 1 Comment

Last week, I posted another Virtual Machine Performance tip on Anti-Malware software and virtual machines, and have another one for you this week. Just like your physical hard drive, disks get defragmented, which can affect performance. Be sure to regularly defragment your virtual hard drives occasionally to keep it running in tip-top shape.

If you are running VMWare Workstation, you can get down to this option by going to Edit virtual machine settings from the Commands window

Then selecting your virtual hard disk under the Hardware menu, dropping down Utilities, and selecting Defragment as shown below.

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About Geoff Varosky
Geoff Varosky is the Director of Development and Evangelism for Jornata (www.jornata.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint solutions based out of Boston, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over 13 years, and has been working with SharePoint for the past 6 years. Geoff is an active member of the SharePoint community, Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (www.bostonsharepointug.org), co-organizer for SharePoint Saturday Boston (www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston) and speaks regularly at SharePoint events and user groups.

One Response to Virtual Machine Performance Tip: Defragmentation

Tiberius says:

January 5, 2011 at 9:03 AM

IIRC, there are some MS/VMware certified commercial auto defrag utilities for automating this process, isn’t it? Don’t have the link with me, but I remember reading about some of these utilities proactively minimizing the occurrence of fragmentation, and negating the need for frequent defrags. Should be quite useful I think.

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