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Defragment VMs, should it be done?

HendersonD
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I am aware of at least two disk defragmenting solutions aimed directly at VMs (Diskeeper and Perfectdisk). Both claim increased IO and reduced latency for VMs that are defragmented. Has anyone tried these products? Is it important to defrag a VMs drives? Does running defrag on a VM affect its alignment? All of my VMs are aligned and I certainly do not want to change this.

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