A company that wants to remain competitive in their
industry must maintain a competitive advantage when it comes to
technology. Because modern companies rely heavily on technology the most
advanced companies are often more streamlined, efficient and productive
than their competitors. Some companies however make all the right
upgrades to the systems that they use and never seem to gain any ground.
This is because they do not take the proper steps to ensure that the
technology they adopt is cared for correctly.
Recently virtualization platforms have become incredibly valuable for
companies as a way to increase IT network efficiency and reduce the
fixed costs of running a business management system. The outdated
multiple server environments that many companies used create incredible
amounts of waste. Each server housed only a single application or
operating system and the remaining space was unused free space. In
addition IT administrators wound up spending the majority of their time
performing maintenance on these machines rather than focusing on other
areas of the business. Updating, archiving and backing up servers took
up the majority of their time.
Switching to a virtualization platform allows companies to condense
their operating systems and applications on to a single server,
eliminating the wasted space that occurred in multiple server
environments. It also allowed IT administrators to focus maintenance on a
single machine rather than repeating the same actions on the many
different machines their company used. The information that a company
stored on their server could then be accessed by different virtual
machines that shared the server’s resources. However like any technology
problems do arise on virtualization platforms.
I/O bandwidth bottlenecks faster on virtual platforms because of
accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O
resources is not prioritized effectively across the virtual platform,
and virtual disks that are set to dynamically grow do not resize when
data is deleted only ever growing as information is added. These
problems stop companies from realizing the maximum potential of their
virtualization platforms.
To avoid these obstacles causing problems it is important to use a
virtual platform disk optimizer on any virtualization platform. A
virtual platform disk optimizer, like V-locity from
Diskeeper
Corporation, will remove these threats and allow the system to operate
efficiently
V-locity uses a unique combination of software to combat these problems
and provide the most efficient computing possible. IntelliWrite®
Technology is responsible for writing much larger sequential disk I/Os
from virtual machines and creating less work for copy-on-write
technology that copies/tracks every write. To avoid cutting across the
production needs of other virtual machines InvisiTasing® Technology will
guarantee that V-locity operates in the background.
Systems that run special virtual disk types use Virtual Disk
Intelligence to identify the special disk and cater specifically to the
way that it works. This allows the platform to avoid data movement being
recorded to “change disks” and provides maximum performance from the
special disks. Because Thin/Dynamic disks that are set to resize only
ever grow and do not shrink when data are deleted they accumulate free
space “holes” that are never going to be reused. To solve this V-locity
offers Virtual Disk Compaction, showing the free space that can be made
available in a graphical user interface and providing a one-click option
to begin the compaction process.
Not protecting a virtualization platform will result in the entire
system slowing down and the advantages that virtualization offers being
negated. Wasted space will accumulate on the disks and IT administrators
will be forced to find ways to maintain the platform’s speed.
Protecting the platform with V-locity is the only way that a company can
be sure that they are getting maximum I/O speed out of their virtual
servers.
