Learn About Defragmenting a Disk Group

Important: This option should be used only under the guidance of a Customer and Technical Support representative.

Select Advanced >> Recovery >> Defragment Disk Group to consolidate all  on a selected . Doing so lets 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.

Example 1

You have two virtual disks, "Accounting" and "Human Resources" of 2 GB each. You would like to create a new virtual disk, "Marketing" of 2 GB in the same disk group. The disk group has 2 GB of space available, but it is split between two non-contiguous Free Capacity nodes, which cannot be organized into a single virtual disk.

In order to create a new virtual disk "Marketing" of 2 GB, you first must  the disk group so that the space in the two Free Capacity nodes is contiguous.

Example 2

In the previous example, Disk Group 1 contained two Free Capacity nodes of 1 GB each . A Defragment Disk Group operation on this disk group results in a single Free Capacity node of 2 GB.

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