{"id":2686,"date":"2018-11-02T23:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T23:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2018-11-02T23:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T23:11:57","slug":"how-to-defrag-drives-using-powershell-in-windows-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2686","title":{"rendered":"How to Defrag Drives using Powershell in Windows Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defrag Drives with Optimize-Volume<\/h2>\n

The new cmdlet we will use is called\u00a0Optimize-Volume<\/strong>. It is part of the Storage module which utilizes the new CIM infrastructure. You can use this cmdlet to analyze and defrag all types of volumes.<\/p>\n

\"Help<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll focus on logical drives like C:.<\/p>\n

How to Run an Analysis<\/h2>\n

To run an analysis all you need to do is run a command like this:<\/p>\n

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But for some reason unknown to me, the cmdlet doesn\u2019t write any sort of result to the pipeline! Instead you have to use the \u2013Verbose<\/span> parameter.<\/p>\n

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You should get something like Figure 2:<\/p>\n

\"Optimize<\/p>\n

So you can get the information you need, but it takes an extra step. If you want to save the results, you\u2019ll need to redirect the verbose output.<\/p>\n

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On the positive side, you can specify a remote computer using\u00a0\u2013CIMSession<\/strong><\/span>. The remote computer must be running Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8.<\/p>\n

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PS<\/span> C<\/span>:<\/span>\\<\/span>><\/span> Optimize-Volume<\/span> C<\/span> \u2013Analyze<\/span> \u2013Cimsession <\/span>CHI-DC03<\/span> \u2013verbose<\/span> 4><\/span>c<\/span>:<\/span>\\<\/span>work<\/span>\\<\/span>dc03<\/span>-c<\/span>.<\/span>txt<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You can either specify a computer name, as I\u2019ve done here, or an existing CIM session object. This makes it (sort of) easy to analyze the same drive across multiple computers.<\/p>\n

How to Defrag a Drive<\/h2>\n

When the time comes to perform the defrag, we can use the same cmdlet, but without the\u00a0\u2013Analyze<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0parameter.<\/p>\n

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Again, I used \u2013Verbose so I can see what happened in Figure 3.<\/p>\n

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Optimize-Volume<\/span> will automatically perform additional operations such as trimming, depending on the drive type. So for an SSD drive the cmdlet should automatically retrim, but you can specify \u2013Retrim<\/span> if you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defrag Drives with Optimize-Volume The new cmdlet we will use is called\u00a0Optimize-Volume. It is part of the Storage module which utilizes the new CIM infrastructure. You can use this cmdlet to analyze and defrag all types of volumes. We\u2019ll focus on logical drives like C:. How to Run an Analysis To run an analysis all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-windows-server-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}