To perform at the highest level possible companies need
to give their employees the tools to succeed in their everyday tasks.
These are jobs that can be done easily given the right tools but become
difficult if obstacles stand in the way. To make sure that employees are
given all the help that they need many companies are switching to
virtualization platforms to handle their computing needs and ensure that
they have the best technology available.
Virtualization platforms are the next step up from multiple server
environments. Multiple server environments have been used by companies
for years to house all of the operating systems and applications that
the company uses. The systems are effective however they are hugely
inefficient. Placing a single operating system or application on each
server leaves a lot of free space unused and requires a great deal of
time and effort by the IT department to maintain the performance of the
system. Spending time on each server doing backups, archiving
information, general maintenance and updates leaves them unable to focus
their skills on other projects that can help streamline the business
operations.
Virtualization platforms evolved to eliminate this unnecessary wasted
space and time. In a virtualization platform all of a company’s
information can be condensed on to a single server. The information can
then be accessed by different virtual machines that share the resources
of the single server. This means that that there is no more wasted space
on the server and it also greatly reduces the time that the IT
department must spend devoted to general care for the server. A
virtualization system allows for employees to spend more of their time
devoted to other aspects of the business and how to make other processes
more efficient and the company more productive as a whole.
Like any advancement in technology virtualization platforms do have
several drawbacks. I/O bottlenecks quickly because of advanced
fragmentation on the virtual platform. The virtual machine competition
for shared I/O resources is not always effectively prioritized across
the platform. Many times virtual disks that are set to dynamically grow
do not resize when data are deleted and create storage gaps on the
server. If a virtualization platform experiences these problems it can
cause the entire system o slow down and make the company unable to
realize the benefits they hoped for when they switched.
Fortunately there is a way to protect virtualization platforms from
these threats and make sure that the system runs quickly and efficiently
to gain the maximum benefit. A company simply has to install a
virtualization platform disk optimizer on the system to allocate
resources properly and make sure that space has not been used
incorrectly. The software, like V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation, is
specifically designed to address the above issues and make the system
perform at its highest capability.
Combining several different unique technologies V-locity is the premier
virtualization platform disk optimizer for companies that want to have a
fully functional virtualization platform. InvisiTasking® Technology
operates in the background on the virtual platform to optimize all
Windows operating systems. Operating in the background allows V-locity
to take care of the system without cutting across the production needs
of other virtual machines on the platform.
IntelliWrite® Technology is used to gain better overall performance on
the system. It writes much larger sequential disk I/Os from Windows
virtual machines and creates less work for copy-on-write technology that
copies/tracks every single write. This creates a faster and more
efficient computing system by handling the large demands that are placed
on a virtualization platform by different virtual machines accessing
the information.
Many companies that decide to use virtualization platforms choose to do
so with special virtual disk types like the VMware Linked Clones and
Microsoft’s Differencing Disks. V-locity is designed to recognize these
special disks and cater specifically to the way that they function
resulting in faster performance for the specialized disk.
On many virtualization systems dynamic disks that are set to resize do
not change when data are deleted. This results in a number of space
“holes” where data used to be. When the data are deleted free space is
deleted but the system will never use it again, it will continue to
recognize these “holes” as being used. V-locity uses Virtual Disk
Compaction to eliminate this issue. Virtual Disk Compaction provides a
graphical user interface to display how much space can be provided by
compacting these space “holes” and offers a simple one-click option to
begin the compaction process.
Because it is in a company’s best interest to provide their employees
with the best tools to do their job it is important that a company with a
virtualization platform chooses to protect their system with the best
software available to them. V-locity virtualization platform disk
optimizer is the best way to ensure that the company realizes maximum
I/O performance on their system and gives their employees the greatest
chance to succeed in their tasks.
