Follow all of the onscreen prompts and when the installation has completed close down the remote desktop connection.

The installation process from this point onwards is fairly straightforward (like most add-ins).

Now follow these couple of quick steps:

Start the WHS Console.

Click the Settings button, and navigate to the Add-ins page.

On the Available page, you should now see the entry for Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer Console.

Click the Install button.

Installation will commence and should only take a moment or two in order to finish. After the Setup has finished you will need to restart your WHS Console.

Using Diskeeper: After you have restarted your WHS Console you will notice a new tab called Diskeeper. If you click on it you will see information pertaining to your home server, as shown in the screenshot below.

Your initial thought might be that it looks like it includes a lot of information. Don’t worry, the left hand window is purely there as a quick launch area to make things easier for you. This include a quick start guide, and overview and other useful documentation, plus menu options to view the properties of your volumes, run analysis and defragmentations and even configure Diskeeper. If you don’t need or want this Quick Launch area you can easily hide it by clicking on the top left button. You can get at all the options anyway from other buttons, so it just makes the other two areas easier to view.

As you can also see, you can view a list of your volumes, including the size and amount of free space, whether or not Automatic Defragmentation is enabled (and it’s enabled by default in case you were wondering, and that’s for 24/7 defragmentation), and if VSS is being used. You can click on any of the volumes and make selections as you see fit, including running and analysis, but more on that in a moment.

If you select a volume and click on the Properties button you can view and change the settings, including when the automatic defragmentation takes place. Personally I think that automatic defragmentation is a great feature as it means my home server is always the best it could be and I don’t have to worry about running a manual defrag later on!

You can easily set the days and times it can take place with just a few simple clicks. And another nice feature is that you can choose another volume to view or change without having to go back to the main screen.

Should you want to see how badly in need your volumes are of defragmenting, for example just after you have installed Diskeeper, you can do so by selecting the volume you want to look at and clicking the analyze button. This will display a graphical representation of your volume for you and show you just how bad (or good) it actually is. Depending on the size of your drive, this analysis should only take a few moments. You can also view either a File Performance volume map or a File Structure volume map, depending on what you are interested in. For me, I was interested in File Performance.

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