One of the most important parts of running a company is
finding ways to gain an advantage over the competition. Every time a
company finds a new or more efficient way to do business they become
more profitable and are able to expand their business to new areas and
stimulate profits. The recent demand for virtualization networks is due
to the advantages that companies realize when streamlining their IT
network and lower the operating costs of their computing operations.
For years companies have been using multiple server environments to
manage their business operations and have grown accustomed to the
limitations of these arrangements. In multiple server environments
companies put operating systems and applications on different physical
servers. This leaves extra space on each server that is not used,
creating inefficiencies and not taking advantage of the servers’ full
capabilities. It is also time consuming to maintain multiple physical
machines. IT administrators are forced to spend the majority of their
time doing routine updates, backups and archiving rather than devoting
their time and talent to other business operations that can be improved.
Switching to a virtual platform allows companies to avoid this waste and
maximize on the investment. In a virtualization network all of a
company’s operating systems and applications can be consolidated onto a
single server. The server can then be accessed using different virtual
machines that share the resources of the single server. Consolidating
the information allows the company to maximize the space they are using
on the server and not leave behind free space that they do not plan on
using.
Storing information on the same machine is safe because every operating
system and application is stored in its own secure space. If something
happens and some of the information on the file is corrupted the
remaining areas are safe from harm and can still be accessed to carry
out business.
There are several obstacles to running a virtual platform effectively.
I/O bandwidth bottlenecks faster due to accelerated fragmentation.
Virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources is not prioritized
effectively across the platform. Virtual disks set to dynamically grow
do not resize after data are deleted and result in wasted space. These
obstacles are all prevalent on virtual platforms but they are avoidable
with the installation of virtual platform disk optimizing software.
V-locity is a
virtual disk platform optimizer from
Diskeeper Corporation
that is the only way to get maximum I/O performance on a virtual
server. With four technologies unique to V-locity the software ensures
that your virtual platform is running quickly and efficiently and will
avoid the problems that cause systems to slowdown.
Once V-locity is installed IntelliWrite® Technology writes much larger
sequential disk I/Os from Windows virtual machines to enhance overall
performance. At the same time it makes less work for copy-on-write
technology that copies/tracks every write. V-locity uses InvisiTasking®
Technology to guarantee that it works invisibly. Without InvisiTasking®
processes can cut across the production needs of other virtual machines
and create problems.
Virtual Disk Intelligence allows V-locity to automatically detect
special virtual disk types and cater specifically to the way that they
operate to avoid having data movement recorded to “change disks” and
resulting in faster performance for the special disks. To eliminate the
problem of Thin/Dynamic disks not resizing when data are deleted
V-locity provides Virtual Disk Compaction. When data are deleted from
these disks the free space is never used again creating a space “hole.”
Through a graphical user interface the amount of free space that has
accumulated as “holes” is displayed and a one-click solution is provided
to begin the compaction process.
A virtualization network is the most efficient way to eliminate excess
work placed on the IT administrators and maximize the usefulness of a
company’s servers. However, without the proper protection even the most
advanced system will begin to experience slow operating speeds and
errors. Using V-locity companies can protect their network and ensure
that their system is operating at an optimal level.
