Also you will notice that there is a boot time defrag setting too. To do this click on the Properties button on the V-Locity 2 console and select the drives in your server and click on the auto defrag button on the left, then uncheck the box on the right. So my recommendation for users of the Disk Keeper V-Locity 2 product, who also leverage change block tracking to make backups smaller and faster, is to turn OFF automatic defragmentation. Check out these results… several times the V-Locity VM is a few gigabytes larger then its sibling. (Again remember any change that was preformed on one VM I replicated the steps on to the other VM). You can pretty much tell exactly when the defrag process ran as the size of the Veeam backup file on the V-Locity VM is MUCH higher then the one without.
Phase 2: Auto Defrag turned onĪs with the last section, the results of turning automatic defrags back on was pretty much spot on to what I figured.
Again … this article isn’t about how much actual improvement you will get with the inteligent write feature alone… but the reporting from V-Locity seems to think its helping. So without auto defragmentation turned on I see no reason why you couldn’t use this product and still maintain good replication and backup sizes, as it doesn’t look like it causes too much extra block movement. The results were pretty much right on to what I expected: The Veeam backup files of the VM with V-Locity installed is almost exactly the same as the the backup files from the VM without V-Locity.
#Windows diskkeeper windows
During this first stage I installed some Windows 2008 Roles on both of the virtual machines and just let them run for a couple of days. Basically V-Locity 2 has two ways to optimize your disk… intelligent writing of new data … and second… defragmenting the data that is already on the disk. Also the backup job is scheduled to run every 12 hours on both machines.Īfter installing v-Locity 2 on the one VM and booting up the other, I made sure to uncheck the “automatic defragmentation” box while installing. It should be noted that I had not yet installed v-Locity 2 on the one VM yet, so the Veeam backup size of the two VM’s are identical. Then I created a Veeam Backup of the systems, I excluded the drive with the swap file on it to minimize the amount of change blocks due to the swap file. This time I created a Windows 2008 R2 VM, put the page file on to a second drive and activated Windows.
It should be noted that although I started testing in February I wanted to recheck the results because I didn’t feel that the way I was testing was proper. This post was started in February, now its the middle of June…funny how time flies. Why do you care? Well if you use a backup technology like Veeam, or anything else that uses CBT it makes a huge difference.
#Windows diskkeeper free
This will not be a post about how much faster a fragment free drive will make your VM, instead this is about what effects this product has on the number of blocks that change in a VM. The product that I’m reviewing in this article is Diskeeper’s V-locity 2 product, which can be found here.
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