Raxco Software, a company that develops software solutions for disk defragmentation, has announced that its new offering, PerfectDisk 2008 Server, a device providing server virtualization and consolidation is compatible with Hyper-V, a part of Windows Server 2008, is being offered by Microsoft (News - Alert).

 

Microsoft has already certified PerfectDisk 2008 to comply with Windows Server 2008 in the initial phase of this year, which is an assurance that this software application fulfills the technical requirements needed to support the platform.

 

Under server virtualization or hardware virtualization, enterprises can run more than one operating systems upon a single machine. All the operating systems work as virtual machines, helping the companies save money they would have otherwise spent for buying multiple machines.

 

Windows Server 2008 provides the users with an in-built feature named Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, that provides full capability to support server virtualization upon the machine running it.

 

PerfectDisk 2008 optimizes the performance upon the virtual environment, so that maximum capabilities of the environment can be deployed by the enterprise. The software is equipped with a Space Restoration Technology, that provides maximum performance in the virtual environment by deploying the SMARTPlacement optimization strategy, a PerfectDisk patent, coupled with single-pass free space consolidation.

 

PerfectDisk 2008 further boosts the support for virtualization environments through its Hyper-V support, as the PerfectDisk 2008 family of products comprising of PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware and the PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware ESX Bundle, offers the optimal software solution for defragmentation in the virtual environments.

 

Greg Hayes, manager of technical operations at Raxco Software, said that fragmentation in Hyper-V environments poses significant performance obstacles to organizations implementing this new technology.

 

Hayes noted that PerfectDisk provides robust yet easy-to-use solutions for this challenge with complete defragmentation and free space consolidation that is critical to virtual machines.

 

PerfectDisk 2008 has been able to grab an array of awards by various magazines and critics, some of which are Windows IT Pro (News - Alert) Editors' Choice award, Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice award, Redmond Magazine's Best of the Best Award and PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award, to name a few.