Defragmenting a Disk Group

Use the option to consolidate all on a selected . Using this option enables you create additional from the maximum amount of free capacity. A fragmented disk group can result from virtual disk deletion or from not using all available free capacity in a during virtual disk creation. Perform the following steps:

Important:

Use this option only under the guidance of a Customer and Technical Support representative.
You cannot cancel the operation after it begins.
Your data remains accessible during the defragment operation.
To use this option, all virtual disks in the disk group must be online and , and no virtual disk modification operations, such as Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk can be in progress.

Select a disk group in the Logical View, and select Advanced >> Recovery >> Defragment Disk Group .

Click Yes.

All free data blocks on the Free Capacity nodes are consolidated into one Free Capacity node containing a larger set of contiguous data blocks. The Logical View is updated to display the larger, single Free Capacity node. You can select this Free Capacity node for virtual disk creation.

Defragmenting a Disk Group

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