Over the last few years there has been a large increase
in the demand for virtualization platforms. Companies that are looking
for more efficient IT network administration or are trying to reduce the
fixed costs of their servers have begun flocking to virtualization as a
solution. Compared to a multiple server environment virtualization
platforms are the most efficient way to operate a business management
system.
The standard in IT network infrastructure has been multiple server
environments for years. Companies are so familiar with them that rarely
does anyone take the time to examine the way that they work and see how
time and space are wasted. Placing applications and operating systems
across different servers creates large amounts of wasted space. Once an
application of operating system has been placed on a server it is rare
that the remaining space is used to store additional data and when this
wasted space is multiplied by several machines it becomes a money pit
for the company.
Multiple server environments also increase the time that the company’s
IT administrators spend caring for each machine. General maintenance,
backups, archiving and updates are all tasks that must be performed one
at a time on each individual machine. These tasks leave IT admins unable
to attend to their other tasks and make them do the same work multiple
times. A virtualization platform allows companies to maximize their use
of free space and free IT admins to focus their talent in more
productive ways.
On a virtualization infrastructure applications and operating systems
are consolidated on one single server. The information that is put on
the server is then accessible to different virtual machines that share
the server’s resources. The server’s space is used efficiently because
it can hold multiple operating systems and applications. The time
required to keep the server running properly is also cut down by
operating a single machine. The security of the data on the server is
ensured because each piece of information is kept in a different secure
area. If a problem should occur in one area the others are unaffected
and can still be used.
Before fully taking advantage of a virtualization platform a company
must overcome several obstacles that stand in the way of optimum
operating ability. 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 resizing after data are deleted resulting in wasted space,
are some of the obstacles that must be overcome. Luckily they can all be
avoided simply by protecting the platform with a
virtual platform disk
optimizer.
A virtual platform disk optimizer like V-locity from
Diskeeper
Corporation is a must have for companies to gain fast I/O performance
from their virtual server. V-locity uses technologies that cannot be
found anywhere else to ensure the performance of your virtualization
platform and eliminate all obstacles that stand in the way.
IntelliWrite® Technology allows V-locity to write much larger sequential
disk I/Os from Windows virtual machines. This enhances the overall
performance of the system will at the same time creating less work for
copy-on-write technology that copies/tracks every write. InvisiTasking®
Technology guarantees that V-locity will operate invisibly in the
background on the system. This is to eliminate the possibility that the
software will cut across the production needs of other virtual machines.
For companies that are using special disk types V-locity offers Virtual
Disk Intelligence. This feature caters to the specific kind of special
disk that you are using and results in faster speed. Free disk space is
maximized using Virtual Disk Compaction. When Thin/Dynamic disks resize
the disks only ever grow. This creates free space “holes” when data are
deleted. V-locity provides a graphical user interface to show how much
space can be saved by eliminating these holes and provides a one-click
option to begin the compaction process.
The more companies begin to switch to virtualization platforms the more
important it is that they protect their systems with virtual platform
disk optimizing software. Installing V-locity will provide any company
with the best speed and reliability and is the only way to get maximum
I/O performance on virtual servers.
