VM Virtual guest machine disk defrag improves performance, myth or reality?
- by jafin
In operation of a virtual Vmware or Hyper-V guest typically advice is given to defrag the host and virtual disk images so to result in improved performance.
Something like a cmd: vmware-vdiskmanager -d <file.vmdk> works great.
Yet I can't find any qualitive evidence that suggest defraging inside the guest VM improves performance. Does anyone have advice or evidence that doesn't come from a commercial defragger's whitepaper that suggests inside guest defragging helps?