There has been an incredible increase in the demand for
virtualization platforms in the last few years. As companies look for
solutions to inefficient IT network administration and attempt to reduce
fixed costs the benefits have become overwhelmingly obvious. When
compared to a multiple server environment, virtualization platforms are
the most efficient way to operate business management systems and create
the most room for increased productivity.
Multiple server environments have been the standard IT network
infrastructure for many years. Because they have been so common many
companies have not taken the time to examine the way they work and
notice the ways that time and space are wasted. Spreading applications
and operating systems across different servers creates a large amount of
wasted space. Once the application or operating system is placed on the
server the remaining space is rarely used to store additional
information. When this wasted space is multiplied across several
machines it adds up quickly and becomes a blatant waste of resources.
Additionally by using several different machines the company’s IT
administrators must spend time caring for each server. General
maintenance, backups, archiving and updates must be performed one at a
time on each individual server. These tasks take time away from the IT
admin’s other responsibilities and force them to do the same work
multiple times. Switching to a virtualization platform allows companies
to eliminate wasted free space and free IT admins to focus their time in
a more productive fashion.
In a virtualization infrastructure information like applications and
operating systems are condensed onto a single server. The information
stored on the server can then be accessed by different virtual machines
that share the resources of the single machine. The space on the server
is maximized by holding multiple operating systems and applications, and
the time required to care for the system is severely cut down because
there is only the one machine to worry about. The security of the
stored data is ensured by keeping each piece of information in a
different secure area, this way if an issue arises in one area the
others are unaffected and can still be used.
There are several obstacles that must be overcome to get the maximum
performance out of a virtualization platform. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks
faster due to accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for
shared I/O resources is not prioritized effectively across the platform
and virtual disks set to grow do not resize after data are deleted and
result in wasted space. To overcome these obstacles a company needs to
protect their virtualization platform by installing
virtual platform
disk optimizer software.
Installing virtual platform disk optimizer software like V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation is a must for companies to continue to have fast
I/O performance on a virtual server and V-locity is the best way to
maximize the speed and efficiency. V-locity uses unique technology to
ensure that the problems common to virtualization platforms will not be
an issue.
With IntelliWrite® Technology V-locity writes much larger sequential
disk I/Os from Windows virtual machines and enhances the overall
performance of the system while making less work for the copy-on-write
technology that copies/tracks every write. Using InvisiTasking®
Technology V-locity guarantees that it will operate invisibly on the
system. This allows the software to protect your platform without
cutting across the production needs of other virtual machines.
V-locity will also detect special virtual disk types with Virtual Disk
Intelligence and cater to the specific ways that they work and resulting
in faster speed for the special disk. To maximize the use of free space
Virtual Disk Compaction is provided to eliminate free space “holes”
that accumulate when Thin/Dynamic disks do not resize after data are
deleted. A graphical user interface shows how much space can be freed by
compaction and provides a simple one-click option to begin the process.
As more and more companies switch to virtualization platforms it is
important that they take the proper precautions to protect their
investment. Installing V-locity on the platform guarantees that speed
and reliability are not going to be problems. V-locity is the only way
to get maximum I/O performance on virtual servers.
