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Product Information

PerfectDisk vSphere Bundle helps to improve vSphere performance and eliminate vSphere guest I/O bottlenecks. Total automation and flexibility combined with robust central management provide complete defragmentation of your production vSphere environment while eliminating resource contention, so your virtual environment runs better than ever. It integrates with PerfectDisk Enterprise Console to provide easier management and deployment capabilities.

Features

Virtual Infrastructure Awareness Technology

Virtual infrastructure awareness technology monitors resource availability at the physical host level and enables high resource availability and intelligent real time I/O prioritisation during file system optimisation. This technology allows optimisations to occur dynamically between virtual guests so as to completely eliminate the resource contention caused by simultaneous optimisations. PerfectDisk vSphere also includes full support for vMotion to track resource availability when a virtual guest migrates from host to host.

Eliminate vSphere Guest I/O bottlenecks

PerfectDisk vSphere is a complete solution that optimises your physical host, guest machines, and your storage solution to eliminate I/O throughput and I/O latency bottlenecks. This includes the optimisation of both fat and thin provisioned virtual storage on both local and external RAID / SAN solutions.

Automatic background optimisation

PerfectDisk's new OptiWrite technology prevents most fragmentation on your drive before it occurs, which prevents your system from slowing down. OptiWrite detects when Windows is going to fragment files and intelligently redirects I/O to stop the fragmentation from occurring. System performance is maintained and the need to utilise CPU and Disk I/O resources to defragment files is greatly reduced. Because less defragmentation is needed, there is a direct benefit in the form of energy saved in both CPU usage and in the reading and writing to a disk. It saves in energy costs and in the time required to defragment a file system.

Short Stroke Method for Thin-Provisioned Environments

New Short Stroke method improves optimisation speed and improves support for thin provisioned drives:

• Allows for optimisation of thin provisioned disks without introducing excessive growth.
• Works with the new Zero Fill pass in conjunction with thin persistent storage systems to reclaim up to 30% more storage.
• Accelerate the optimisation of large disk array by drastically shortening seek times for all electromechanical drive types and arrays.

Zero-Fill Free Space Saves Storage Space

Only PerfectDisk offers Zero-Fill free space capability that consolidates free space then zero-fills that space. When moving from a physical to virtual environment, zero-filling the free space after optimisation of the physical system saves storage space on the virtualised system. In a thinly-provisioned environment zero-filling a virtual machine after optimisation and then compacting it gives you a smaller machine that uses less storage. This also allows for recovering of zero-filled free space when using one of the growing number of zero-detect SANs from HP/3PAR or HDS.

Dramatically Improve vSphere Performance

Proven to increase I/O throughput, and decrease I/O request latency by 35% or more. PerfectDisk vSphere enables the best possible performance for your virtual machines and maximises the performance of your storage solution. Using I/O prioritisation for zero resource contention overhead, PerfectDisk vSphere optimises server virtualisation performance management by defragging file systems for increased IOP performance and completely eliminating performance issues relating to split I/O requests.

Testing performed on identical disks using VMware’s vscsiStats show that defragmentation of Windows guest VM’s delivers significant performance and throughput improvements. The PerfectDisk defragmented disk produced the following:

• 36.5% reduction in total IO
• 31 times more writes greater then 524K
• 92% reduction in number of IO taking more than 50ms
• 40% reduction in total IO disk latency

VMware Technical Alliance Partner Solution

PerfectDisk vSphere is a Native 64-bit application providing exceptional performance on 64-bit vSphere guests. PerfectDisk vSphere supports virtual machines of all server roles, including Clustered and non-Clustered SQL Server, Exchange Server and File & Print server roles.

Host based licensing – Unlimited Guests

Licensed per physical host, PerfectDisk vSphere is a cost effective solution with exceptional ROI. Each licensed host supports unlimited guest licenses for easy license management and superior value. No additional costs per CPU or CPU core. Volume pricing is available.

Includes Enterprise Console

Includes the free PerfectDisk Enterprise Console, which provides complete central management of your physical and virtual vSphere environments. The Enterprise Console features Active Directory integration, OU Linking, deployment, monitoring, customisable alerts and reports.