Companies are constantly trying to find ways to save
money and gain an advantage in their industry. The biggest advantages
come to companies who are quick to change their habits when a new
technology comes along that can revolutionize the way they handle their
daily operations. Using virtualization platforms have allowed companies
to see incredible strides in productivity and efficiency.
A virtualization platform is an alternative to running a multiple server
environment. Multiple server environments require companies to spread
applications and operating systems across many different servers to
store their files and protect the information that they save. This is an
expensive setup because it requires a lot of attention from IT
administrators to operate efficiently. The IT admins must spend their
time doing backups, archives, updates and general maintenance for the
servers and do not get to use their time efficiently because the process
is time consuming and repetitive. As the networks grow so does the cost
of caring for and storing the servers.
Switching to a virtualization platform allows companies to eliminate
much of this waste. In a virtualization platform all of the information
that companies store can be condensed onto a single server, the server
can then be accessed by using different virtual machines that share the
resources of the server. Putting all of the information on one server
allows IT admins to spend less time focusing on maintaining the
technology and prevents free space from being wasted across multiple
servers.
Virtualization is a great way for a company to consolidate space and cut
down on wasteful spending but the technology is not flawless. I/O
bottlenecks faster because of 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 storage
gaps. If a virtual platform is not protected these problems can all
arise and cause issues on the new platform.
These problems are well known because they are common but they are not
untreatable. A company that wants to protect their investment and get
the maximum efficiency from their virtual platform only needs to install
a
virtualization platform disk optimizer on the system. The software
will optimize the virtual platform to make sure that it is operating as
smoothly as possible and at peak performance. V-locity from
Diskeeper
Corporation has been specifically designed to be the most effective
virtualization platform disk optimizer.
V-locity contains unique technologies that allow it to protect a
virtualization network from problems and increase the operational
efficiency of the system. The IntelliWrite® Technology will write much
larger sequential disk I/Os from Windos virtual machines to give the
system better overall performance. It will also create less work for the
copy-on-write technology that copies/tracks every write. InvisiTasking
Technology operates invisibly to optimize the Windows operating systems.
The technology operates in the background to eliminate the possibility
that V-locity will cut across the production needs of other virtual
machines.
A company that uses a virtualization system with special virtual disk
types can take advantage of Virtual Disk Intelligence that recognizes
the special virtual disk and uses technology that works specifically
with that kind of disk. The special disks will operate faster and more
efficiently to provide the user with peak performance.
V-locity also provides solutions for systems that use Thin/Dynamic
disks. These disks are notorious for wasting disk space because they are
set to resize but are only ever capable of growing. If they are not
told to they will never shrink on their own. Deleting data from the disk
creates free space that will never be reused. This free space is called
a space “hole” because it will never be filled. Virtual Disk Compaction
provides users a way to eliminate these space “holes” and allow the
free space to be reused in the future. A graphical user interface
displays how much space will be saved by compacting the data and offers a
one-click way to begin compaction.
The demand for virtualization platforms has increased dramatically
because of the reduced IT network demands and cost efficient computing
they provide. Running a virtual platform only helps companies who are
willing to take the proper steps to protect their investment against the
known problems that arise. V-locity virtualization platform disk
optimizer provides the best solution to these problems to allow for
maximum I/O performance and peak operating capability.
