A company that wants to grow their business and increase
the bottom line cannot afford to get comfortable. It is important to
always be looking for new ways to handle business and innovations that
streamline workflow around the office. Using the same technology that
has been around for decades is habit forming and can stop companies from
adopting more efficient systems.
Multiple server environments are a great example of technology that
creates massive amounts of waste but are still used because people have
gotten used to them. When companies use these environments to store
operating systems and applications every server carries wasted space
that represent a lack of efficiency. Putting each operating system and
application on their own dedicated platform means that the rest of the
space remains unused. Adding more applications or another operating
system requires the company to purchase another server and waste even
more space.
Multiple server environments waste employee time as well. IT
administrators must take time out of their day to update, archive, back
up, and perform general maintenance on each individual server. The more
servers that a company uses the longer it takes the IT admins to finish
these tasks and the less time they have to devote to innovations that
can help the company make money. Adding the cost of purchasing and
housing servers it is easy to see how multiple server environments can
waste a company’s assets.
Adopting virtualization infrastructures allow companies to significantly
reduce these costs. Using a virtual platform companies can condense all
of their operating systems and applications onto a single server. The
server can then be accessed by different virtual machines that share the
server’s resources. This allows the company to eliminate the wasted
space that is common to multiple server environments and reduce the
amount of time that IT admins are forced to spend doing routine
maintenance.
To make sure that the virtual platform provides the greatest advantage
it is important to avoid several key obstacles. On virtualization
infrastructures challenges occur because 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 dynamically grow do not resize after
data are deleted and result in wasted space. When these problems arise
they cause virtual platforms to slow down and become inefficient.
These problems can all be prevented with the installation of a
virtual
platform disk optimizer. When a virtual platform disk optimizer, like
V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation, is installed it immediately goes to
work to prevent these problems from arising. Using a combination of
unique software V-locity is the only way to get maximum I/O performance
on your virtual servers.
IntelliWrite® Technology begins by writing much larger sequential disk
I/Os from Windows virtual machines while making less work for
copy-on-write technology that copies/tracks every write to enhance the
overall performance of the system. With InvisiTasking® Technology,
V-locity is guaranteed to operate invisibly in the background of the
computer, eliminating the possibility of cutting across production needs
of other virtual machines.
V-locity uses Virtual Disk Intelligence to automatically detect special
virtual disk types and work specifically with them, avoiding data
movement being recorded to “change disks” and resulting in better
performance by the special disks. To eliminate wasted space V-locity
uses Virtual Disk Compaction to recognize when Thin/Dynamic disks have
accumulated space “holes” from not resizing after data are deleted.
Using a graphical user interface the amount of space that can be freed
for use is displayed along with a one-click option to begin the
compaction process.
Continuing to rely on multiple server environments is a poor choice for a
business that wants to operate efficiently and reduce their fixed
costs. Switching to a virtualization infrastructure will allow the IT
admins to focus their time in more productive ways. It will also
eliminate the need to purchase additional servers while free space sits
unused. A virtualization system running V-locity virtual platform disk
optimizer is essential for any company.
