There has been a dramatic increase in the demand for
quick, reliable virtual platforms. More companies than ever are
switching from the old standard – multiple server environments – and
adopting a single virtual server. Virtualization offers many advantages
over multiple server environments like lowered operating costs, less
wasted space and an increase in IT network efficiency. While
virtualization platforms are popular, they are not perfect. There are
three key barriers that heavily impact a virtual environment.
The barriers that are prevalent are due to the extra competition for
resources on the server. In multiple server environments where many
servers handle tasks the workload can be shared. In a virtualization
platform all of a company’s information is condensed to a single server
resulting in more use of the server’s resources.
The three key barriers to running an effective virtualization platform
are: I/O bandwidth bottlenecks fast due to accelerated fragmentation on
virtual platforms, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources
is not effectively prioritized across the platform, and virtual disks
set to dynamically grow do not resize when data are deleted creating
wasted space. These problems will rob your platform of performance that
is crucial to keeping your company running smoothly and allowing your
employees to do their jobs.
These barriers are not insurmountable. There is a quick and easy way to
protect your virtualization platform from harm and get maximum I/O
performance, V-locity
virtual platform disk optimizer. V-locity, from
Diskeeper Corporation, uses
unique features to invisibly optimize your virtualization platform. Each
component optimizes its respective OS to keep your computer free from
problems that cause slowdowns.
The IntelliWrite® Technology used by V-locity writes larger sequential
disk I/Os from Windows virtual machines to deliver better overall speed
and performance. It also makes less work for the copy-on-write
technology that copies/tracks every write. To prevent applications and
services within virtual machines from effectively prioritizing I/O
because they have limited knowledge of the Host hardware resource usage
V-locity uses InvisiTasking® Technology operate invisibly in the
background to optimize the Windows operating systems.
V-locity uses Virtual Disk Intelligence to automatically detect special
virtual disk types and conform to the way that they operate. The special
disks will operate faster and perform better for the end users.
V-locity offers Virtual Disk Compaction for virtualization platforms
that have Thin/Dynamic disks. These disks are set to resize but never
shrink and only ever grow. Even after data are deleted the disk will not
use the space, creating a free space “hole” that will never be reused.
With Virtual Disk Compaction a graphical user interface displays how
much space can be compacted and provides a quick easy way to begin the
compaction with one click.
With the power of V-locity switching to a virtualization platform makes
more sense than ever before. Your virtual server will run faster and
allow more work to be done with less wasted time and space. Protection
from I/O bandwidth bottlenecks and ineffective resource usage provide
the peace of mind that your system is operating to its fullest
capability. Installing V-locity is the only way to get maximum I/o
performance on virtual servers and is the most effective solution for
virtualization platforms.
