Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
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What is best practice for defragmenting disks in a HyperV environment
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Kasey K
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Consider a Hyperv cluster environment with 4 Windows Server hosts. This is all attached to an HP MSA SAN.
Is there a best practice for degragmentation for this storage, SAS disks?
Should defragmentation occur at the host level or vm guest level?