Purchasing PerfectDisk 12


The following table gives you information about PerfectDisk versions available. Use this information to help you decide which version of PerfectDisk you need. You can also contact Raxco Software for additional assistance, if needed.

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Consider these versions

Windows 7/Vista/XP

PerfectDisk 12 Home Premium

PerfectDisk 12 Home Premium is for personal use. It is the basic version of PerfectDisk 12 - lacking the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and integrated Dashboard found PerfectDisk 12 Pro and the centralized management features found in PerfectDisk Pro for Networks.

Windows 7/Vista/XP

PerfectDisk 12 Pro

PerfectDisk 12 Pro is for small office/personal use. It lacks the centralized management abilities found in PerfectDisk Pro for Networks. It has advanced features not found in PerfectDisk 12 Home Premium.

Windows 7/Vista/XP

PerfectDisk 12 Pro for Networks

PerfectDisk 12 Pro for Networks can be centrally managed using the PerfectDisk 12 Enterprise Console and Active Directory and is for large office/enterprise use.

Windows Home Server

PerfectDisk 12 Home Server

PerfectDisk 12 Home Server works on both Windows Home Server and Windows Home Server 2011.

Windows Server 2008/2003

PerfectDisk 12 Server

Windows 7/Windows Vista/XP running VMWare Workstation

PerfectDisk 12 VMware Workstation

combines the power of PerfectDisk 12 with additional functionality for a VMware Workstation environment to help you automatically boost VMware performance and reclaim VMware disk space. PerfectDisk 12 VMware Workstation goes beyond basic disk optimization by automatically optimizing virtual disk drives, improving VMware host performance by re-indexing virtual disk drives, and reclaiming unused space by shrinking virtual disk drives.

Windows guests running in a vSphere virtual environment

PerfectDisk 12 vSphere

PerfectDisk 12 vSphere is aware of its virtual existence and able to adjust its resource consumption behavior dynamically with respect to physical host resource loads. PerfectDisk 12 vSphere monitors the ESX, ESXI host to determine host CPU and disk resource usage, and will dynamically adjust optimization activity in order to not impact other guests or overload the host server. PerfectDisk 12 vSphere is also VMotion aware and able to automatically detect when a guest has moved to a different host.

Windows guests running in a Hyper-V virtual environment

PerfectDisk 12 Hyper-V

PerfectDisk 12 Hyper-V is aware of its virtual existence and able to adjust its resource consumption behavior dynamically with respect to physical host resource loads. PerfectDisk 12 Hyper-V monitors the Hyper-V Host to determine host CPU and disk resource usage, and will dynamically adjust optimization activity in order to not impact other guests or overload the host server. PerfectDisk 12 Hyper-V is Live Migration aware and able to automatically detect when a guest has moved to a different host.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010/2007/2003

PerfectDisk 12 Exchange

Combines the power of PerfectDisk 12 Server with additional functionality for your Exchange Server environment. PerfectDisk 12 Exchange automates the compaction/defragmentation of Microsoft Exchange data stores.

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