Companies must always try to find ways to improve their
business operations. Often this means that they must keep up to date
with the most recent advances in technology and computing systems. A
company that continues to use the same system they have had for years
can fall behind their competitors and lose customers and clients.
Multiple server environments are a great example of a way that a company
can rely on outdated technology. Multiple server environments waste a
lot of space and time but are still used because companies are so
familiar with them. When operating systems and applications are stored
on their own servers the leftover space is rarely used. This creates
wasted space and other inefficiencies. Adding another application or
operating system requires the addition of another expensive server.
Multiple server environments also waste employee’s time. Because each
individual server has to be updated, archived, backed up and generally
maintained by IT administrators the majority of the IT admin’s day can
be focused on routine maintenance. This keeps them from focusing on
streamlining other business processes that could help improve the
company’s revenue.
Virtualization platforms allow companies to avoid these inefficiencies
and reduce the amount of waste. A virtual platform lets a company
condense their operating systems and applications on to a single server.
The single server can then be accessed by different virtual machines
that share the server’s resources. This eliminates wasted space on
multiple servers and lessens the amount of time that IT admins must
spend performing routine tasks.
Once a company has switched to a virtualization platform it is important
that they protect it from common problems that can occur. 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 and result in wasted space. These
problems make it easy for a virtual platform to perform slower and be
less efficient.
These problems are easily avoided by installing a
virtual platform disk
optimizer. This software, like V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation, can
be installed on a virtual platform and will immediately begin working to
prevent the previously mentioned problems.
V-locity uses a unique combination of technology to create increased
efficiency. IntelliWrite® Technology to write larger sequential disk
I/Os from Windows virtual terminals while creating less work for
copy-on-write technology and enhancing overall performance.
InvisiTasking® Technology guarantees that V-locity operates invisibly on
the system and does not cut across the production needs of other
virtual machines.
Virtual Disk Intelligence allows a company that uses a special virtual
disk type to make sure that their special disk is working in concert
with their virtual machines. It recognizes the specific virtual disk
type and operates according to the best possible settings. Thing/Dynamic
disks that are set to grow dynamically do not shrink when data are
deleted. This means when data are deleted free space “holes” are created
that will not be used again to hold information. With Virtual Disk
Compaction a graphical user interface shows how much space can be
created through compaction and provides a one-click option to begin the
process.
Outdated technology cannot be relied on to carry a company into the
future. Multiple server environments waste company time and money and
cannot be relied on when they need to be. A virtualization platform
allows a company to maximize the return they get for their money and
increase their IT network efficiency. The best way to ensure the maximum
performance from a virtualization system is to install V-locity.
