It is very important for companies to always try and find
new ways to improve their business. Many times this means that they
must keep up to date with the latest technology and computing systems.
If a company continues to use the same system that they have been using
for years they are going to fall behind the industry and their bottom
line is going to suffer.
Multiple server environments are an example of a way that companies
still use outdated technology. Multiple server environments waste
incredible amounts of time and space but are still used because
companies are familiar with them. When operating systems and
applications are stored on their own dedicated servers the leftover
space is rarely used, creating waste and inefficiencies. Any additional
applications or operating systems that are added then require the
additional purchase of more servers.
Multiple server environments also waste employee’s time. Each individual
server must be updated, archived, backed up and generally cared for by
IT administrators. The more servers that a company has the more time the
IT admins have to take out of their day to complete these tasks. Their
time is spent doing routine work rather than developing innovations to
enhance the company’s operations.
Virtualization servers allow companies to avoid these problems and
reduce waste. A virtual platform lets a company condense applications
and operating systems onto a single server. This server is then accessed
by various virtual machines that share the single server’s resources.
Condensing the information to a single server allows IT admins to focus
their skills elsewhere and eliminates wasted space on extra servers.
It is important that the proper steps are taken to ensure the
reliability and performance of the virtualization system. On a virtual
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 that
are set to dynamically grow do not resize after data are deleted
resulting in wasted space. When these problems occur it is easy for a
virtual platform to perform slower and lose efficiency.
It is easy for a company to eliminate these obstacles by installing a
virtual platform disk optimizer. Virtual platform disk optimizers like
V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation can be installed on a virtual
platform and immediately begin working to prevent these problems.
V-locity uses a unique combination of technologies to ensure maximum I/O
performance on virtual servers.
IntelliWrite® Technology is used to write much larger sequential disk
I/Os from Windows virtual machines and create less work for
copy-on-write technology that copies/tracks every write, enhancing the
overall performance of the system. InvisiTasking® Technology guarantees
that V-locity will operate invisibly in the background of the system. It
will not cut across the production needs of other virtual machines.
For systems with special virtual disk types Virtual Disk Intelligence
identifies the special disk and works in concert with them to avoid data
movement being recorded to “change disks” and providing maximum
performance from the special disks. Free space is maximized through
Virtual Disk Compaction. When Thin/Dynamic disks have accumulated space
“holes” where data has been deleted a graphical user interface will
display where this free space is and provide a one-click option to begin
the compaction process.
Relying on outdated technology like multiple server environments is a
bad business decision because they drain time and space from the
infrastructure. A virtualization platform will allow a company to
maximize its investment in servers and their IT admins. A virtualization
platform running V-locity is essential for any company to maximize
their computing performance.
