Running a virtualization platform has proven to be
successful for many businesses. It cuts down on wasted time spent
keeping multiple servers housed and maintained, eliminates wasted space
and improves employee productivity. With the intense demand placed on
these virtualization platforms there are three key barriers that
continue to arise.
The first problem is bandwidth bottlenecks that quickly develop due to
accelerated fragmentation. Secondly, virtual machine competition for
shared I/O resources is not effectively prioritized across the platform.
The third major problem that virtualization platforms face are virtual
disks set to dynamically grow not resizing when data is deleted and
wasting free space. To solve these problems software has been developed
that eliminates these problems across the entire virtual platform.
V-locity from
Diskeeer Corporation is software developed to fight all of
these problems. On Windows platforms V-locity prevents most
fragmentation from occurring by optimizing each the respective operating
system. The fragmentation that remains is defragged and free space is
consolidated. Unnecessary I/Os passed from the operating system to the
disk subsystem are minimized and data on the drives are aligned to
provide unrivaled speed and reliability. V-locity
virtual platform disk
optimizer achieves these results with unique features that are vital to
the efficiency and performance of your virtualization platform.
V-locity works with IntelliWrite
(R) Technology to prevent up to 85% of
fragmentation before it ever happens. By writing larger sequential disk
I/Os from Windows virtual machines and making less work for the
copy-on-write technology that copies/track every write there is less
need for defrag. Less need for defrag means that there are less writes
to track and fewer I/Os used.
To address virtual disk intelligence V-locity automatically detects
special virtual disk types like the VMware Linked Clones and Microsoft's
Differencingn Disks to create a nearly zero fragmentation state. This
allows the system to avoid having data movement from defrag recorded to
"change disks." The end result is faster performance for those who are
using the special disks.
Diskeeper Corporation realized that there was a need for a defrag
process that operated behind the scenes. A regular background defrag
process will cut across the production needs of other virtual machines.
With InvisiTasking
(R) Technology V-locity guarantees invisible
optimization of all Windows operating systems on supported platforms.
The need to schedule or monitor defrag where it is needed is eliminated,
even when virtual machines are dynamically added and removed.
Because Thin/Dynamic disks only ever grow, V-locity also provides
virtual disk compaction. When data are deleted these disks never shrink
by themselves. The free space that results remains unused and become
space "holes." The holes take up space on host file system that could be
allocated for other virtual machines. Virtual Disk Compaction provides a
graphical user interface that will show how much space can be saved
with compaction and provides the ability to compact the disk in one
click.
Switching to a virtualization platform is done to maximize a company's
resources and provide a reliable system for employees to use. To ensure
that your platform is running optimally and you are getting the maximum
I/O performance on virtual servers V-locity is a must. It provides
unequal protection against problems often associated with virtual
servers and creates peak operating efficiency.
