It is important for companies to keep up with
developments in technology. As advances are made process can be
streamlined and improved on that save the company money and time. The
extra time can be focused in other areas or devoted to improving the
quality of work done and the satisfaction of clients. No company can
maximize its potential if it continually relies on outdated systems and
technology.
One of the most common ways that companies use inefficient practices is
with multiple server environments. These environments have been used by
companies for years and store important information, operating systems
and applications. In multiple server environments operating systems and
applications are all put on different dedicated servers. This leaves a
lot of free space unused when the applications and operating systems
don’t fully take up the space on the server.
This setup also creates a large amount of wasted time in the IT
department. The IT administrators must continually update, back up,
archive, and generally care for each server in the company. These
processes are time consuming and fairly monotonous. While keeping
servers up to date the IT admins cannot focus their talents on other
problems that would benefit the company. Even when you want to expand
your network multiple server environments create issues because you have
to find money to buy and house new servers.
Many companies are eliminating these problems by switching to a
virtualization platform for their business management system. On a
virtualization platform a company can condense all of their information
to a single server. By hosting more than one operating system or
application on the server the company can maximize the space available
and make sure that they aren’t allowing it to go to waste. Reducing the
number of servers used also provides the IT department with less
maintenance work so that they can focus in other areas.
There are several key obstacles to virtualization platforms that must be
overcome before the system can operate at full speeds. 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. These problems
will all make your virtual platform slower and cause delays that you
were trying to avoid.
Installing a virtual platform disk optimizer can eliminate these
problems. V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation is the most advanced
virtual platform disk optimizer available and the only way to optimize
I/O performance across your virtual network. V-locity uses unique
technology to provide the best protection for the virtual platform.
IntelliWrite® Technology writes much larger sequential disk I/Os from
Windows virtual machines and makes less work for copy-on-write
technology. Doing this enhances the overall performance of the system
and increases speed. InvisiTasking® Technology is used to make sure that
the programs V-locity uses run invisibly in the background and not
cutting across production needs of other virtual machines.
Virtual Disk Intelligence is used to identify what/if special disks
types are being used, the software then caters specifically to those
disks to avoid data movement being recorded as “change disks” and
affecting performance. To make sure that space is maximized across the
platform Virtual Disk Compaction provides a graphical user interface to
show you how much space is unused. When Thin/Dynamic disks are set to
grow but do not resize when data are deleted they create free space
“holes.” Virtual Disk Compaction finds these holes and offers a
one-click option to begin the compaction process.
Virtual network systems keep your company from creating waste during
daily operations. Instead of having information spread across different
machines consolidating everything to a single machine makes operations
faster, easier, and more efficient. Once the move has been mad be sure
to protect your system from slowdowns with a virtual platform disk
optimizer like V-locity.
