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The full promise of storage that is not directly attached to the server is best fulfilled by implementing a SAN, which has advantages in performance, reliability, availability, and provisioning. But the overwhelming benefit of SAN storage often gives storage administrators the false impression that by simply implementing a SAN and following the vendor’s instructions they will get the best possible performance and reliability from the SAN environment in their Windows Server-based network.
Read this white paper to learn how, with a SAN environment, a number of benefits accrue by using a defragmentation utility on your Windows Servers that write to SAN storage.