Diskeeperhas launched a defrag utility for Microsoft's Hyper-V
virtualisation software to improve the hard disc performance of
virtual machines.
The V-locity virtual platform disc optimiser is designed to
remove the bottleneck associated with running virtual server
environments, the company said.
According to Diskeeper, virtual systems suffer twice as much
disc fragmentation as physical servers. The company said that disc
systems are put under increased pressure when four or more servers
are consolidated into one, a single storage device.
V-locity is designed to tackle the performance degradation by
defragmenting files and consolidating free space on every Windows
system on which it is installed in the background, Diskeeper said.
The price for V-locity is £130 per physical core, based on a volume
order for 1-19 cores.