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We tested the impact of server disk defragmentation by looking at common tasks that network servers, both physical and virtual, encounter, ranging from maintenance tasks such as server backup and anti-virus scans, to basic knowledge worker tasks involving opening fi les stored on the host server and virtual machines, and manipulating email.
When considering the results of our testing keep in mind that a production environment will see significantly heavier server use, which results in much greater potential for ongoing disk fragmentation. In your production environment with dozens, if not hundreds, of users touching your server storage simultaneously, your disk fragmentation can become severe in a very short time. Preventing this fragmentation from affecting server performance is an ongoing process.