Does PerfectDisk work with Windows Clusters?
Yes, PerfectDisk supports Windows clusters. Please see the appropriate section below depending on the version of Windows you are running. Windows 2008 R2 based clusters with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Windows 2008 R2 introduces Cluster Shared Volumes – which allows nodes to share access to storage. CSV breaks the dependency between application resources and disk resources (for CSV disks) so that in a CSV environment it does not matter where the disk is mounted because it will appear local to all nodes in the cluster. PerfectDisk (Certified by Microsoft for Windows 2008) is fully compatible with Cluster Shared Volumes. To defragment shared storage, PerfectDisk needs to be installed and run on the coordinator node in the cluster (the node which currently has the Physical Disk resource online. Windows 2003/2008 (pre R2) based clusters Windows 2003/2008 (pre R2) based clusters use what is known as a “shared nothing” approach to clustering and shared storage. What this means is that each
