O&O Software Defrag 14 Server Edition, EL-V2, 250 PCs, CrossGrade

Defrag 14 Server Edition, EL-V2, 250 PCs, CrossGrade Fragmented hard disks put the brakes on the servers in a company
and as a result, have a bad affect on productivity. The level of fragmentation
proportionally increases the time needed for accessing a
hard disk– and thereby increases the amount of valuable time lost as
well. The new O&O Defrag 14 Server Edition for Windows servers
optimizes your hard disk and packs file fragments securely back together
again.

New features in version 14
Among its many innovations, O&O Defrag 14 is now able to optimize
any make of Solid State Drives (SSD). After optimization, SSDs are able
to access data faster and minimize the wear on flash chips. The navigation
in O&O Defrag 14 was designed to coincide with most user scenarios,
so almost all important jobs can be performed intuitively. O&O
Defrag’s new Quick configuration allows you to defragment your server
right after installation, or, with just a few mouse clicks, schedule to have
it done automatically later on. Once setup, you’ll never have to do anything
else about optimizing your server’s hard disks.

Data sorted into zones
Sorting drives into zones results in a logical separation of the database
into performance- critical and non-critical files. Files are divided and
moved into zones according to their designated use and access frequency.
The hard disk can also be sorted into zones that meet your own
requirements. As a result of separating files based on how often they
need to be written, it’s possible to intelligently prevent fragmentation
from occurring. Thanks to this logical organization of files, you’ll need
much less time for accessing files or starting your system and programs.
Successive defragmentation will also take much less time, and all the
classical server jobs can be accomplished more quickly.

Automatic optimization
The Server Edition of O&O Defrag 14 gives you the option of choosing
between the new automatic optimization and an all-inclusive, individual
configuration. After installation, automatic optimization is the default
setting and it guarantees you improved performance without the need
for any time-consuming configuration. Your disks will be optimized behind
the scenes without limiting your server’s performance in any way.
Individual configuration allows you, among other things, to setup O&O
Defrag for defragmenting as soon as a certain level of fragmentation is
reached on a hard disk or partition. Defragmentation can also be scheduled
for a particular day of the week, or whenever a screensaver is
being used. You can pause and resume defragmentation whenever you
want because O&O Defrag automatically recognizes where defragmentation
was interrupted.

Optimizing Solid State Drives (SSDs)
Through the use of periodic ATA TRIM commands, your Solid State
Drives will be kept informed of those disk areas that are not being used.
The drive will then be able to use these free areas for a drive-internal
optimization of data management, instead of as a storage location for
the contents of data that is no longer needed. After optimization, SSDs
will be able to access data faster and minimize the wear on flash chips.

Manage O&O Defrag across a network
When used together with O&O Enterprise Management Console, O&O
Defrag can be managed from a central location across an entire network.
The Console will let you run defragmentation jobs on individual
workstations and servers as well as across sites. You‘ll also be able to
perform automatic remote installation and update to new versions of
O&O Defrag. All events are logged in detailed reports and saved in the
database so that you can be kept informed about the success of any job
you run.

Customize the O&O ActivityMonitor
In the O&O ActivityMonitor, you can define the level of system load at
which an automatic optimization should start and the maximum percentage
of system performance O&O Defrag is permitted to use. The O&O
ActivityMonitor periodically measures the server’s level of capacity. It
controls the amount of power O&O Defrag can use and adjusts it to the
current status of the system. This allows users to continue working on a
server while a defragmentation is running in the background.

Boot-time defragmentation
O&O Defrag can run defragmentation while Windows is being started.
Optimization is normally done in the background while the server is
being used. This allows you to continue working undisturbed. There are,
however, some system files that the operating system purposely blocks
during operation. These files can only be defragmented when they’re no
longer being blocked by the operating system. This is possible before a
Windows login, during the so-called Windows startup process. As there
are no operating system processes running at this time and the user is
unable to start any programs, this period is referred to as boot-time
defragmentation.