Company executives are constantly striving to find new
and better ways to increase their company’s output while limiting their
overall fixed costs. This means that they are constantly exploring new
ways to streamline operations. Recently many companies have begun
switching to virtualization platforms because of the benefits they
receive in the form of increased IT network efficiency and greatly
reduced operating costs when compared to a multiple server environment.
Using a multiple server environment to store operating systems and
applications was standard for many years. Putting each operating system
and application on a different server meant that the data was accessible
and safe, but it also caused a tremendous amount of waste. The servers
used to store the data rarely housed more than one single file and the
rest of the space was left unused. Additionally IT administrators have
to spend much of their time dedicated to making sure that servers were
working properly. Each individual machine had to be backed up, archived,
and routine maintenance had to be performed. The time these tasks take
adds up and prevents the IT admins from focusing on more rewarding jobs.
Using a virtualization platform allows a company to eliminate these
problems. The company can store all of its operating systems and
applications on a single server and access the server’s resources by
using different virtual machines preventing the accumulation of wasted
space that occurs when a number of different servers are used.
IT admins are also freed from the work that binds them to caring for the
many different servers in a multiple server environment. Having only a
single machine to run frees their time to focus on more productive work.
Best of all a virtualization platform will not create a security
compromise for a company. Each operating system and application is
stored in its own secure area so that if one area has a problem it will
not affect the others.
Virtualization is a great step forward for companies that want to reduce
their overhead costs as well as improve their overall efficiency but
the technology is not perfect. There are problems that can arise on a
virtualization platform that will cause the platform to run slowly and
reduce the advantages that company sought to gain. These problems are
most often recognized as I/O bandwidth bottlenecking faster due to
accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O
resources not being prioritized effectively across the platform and
virtual disks that are set to dynamically grow not resizing when data
are deleted.
It is not difficult for a company to avoid these problems; they just
need to make sure that they are using the proper protection. V-locity is
a
virtual platform disk optimizer that will eliminate these concerns
and more to make sure that a company’s virtual platform is providing the
maximum performance and maximum efficiency.
V-locity uses a unique blend of technologies to provide faster backup
speeds, reduced resource conflicts, increased disk space, faster boot
time and longer life for the hardware that is being used to run the
platform. These advantages make
V-locity the most effective way to
protect a virtualization platform from the conflicts that can arise and
provide the company peace of mind knowing that they are using their
platform to the fullest potential.
Switching to a virtualization platform is one of the most effective ways
that a company can improve the way that they operate and reduce their
operating budget. It is crucial that after switching to a virtual
platform the company takes the right steps to protect their new
technology and avoid the obstacles that are known to cause issues.
Installing V-locity is the best way to ensure efficiency and the only
way to get maximum I/O performance from virtual machines.
