New to SANs. Data management question.

[theprimemover]

Can anyone give me some advice on whether or not it's safe and/or recommended to run the regular Win2k defrag program on a SAN drive?

I've only had the opportunity to work with a SAN for about 2 months. I'm getting some errors in my event logs that according to my research can typically be caused by a fragmented file system. I analyzed the drive and it's quite fragmented, though being new to SANs I've never defraged one. I would think it would be o.k., but didn't want to do so without being a little more certain.

We have an older Dell SAN, I can get model specifics if need-be.

Thank you for any advice,
James

 

[comtec17]

It is perfectly ok to defrag your SAN disk. The OS see's it as a locally attached SCSI drive and will use it in the same fashion as a local drive.

 

[vnad]

Was there any benefit from defragging your SAN drives? How long did it take?