Many companies base their technological decisions on how
the change fits into their overall budget. This helps to protect the
bottom line and to make sure that the company is not wasting resources
that are better used in other areas. At the same time these companies
routinely operate outdated systems, like multiple server environments,
that create waste and take employee's time away from other important
matters.
A multiple server environment is an outdated way that companies use to
store information that they use for their business. Each application or
operating system that a company is stored on a single physical machine
leaving the majority of the space the machine can hold unused and
wasted. The accumulation of unused space costs the company a lot of
money, but the use of multiple servers also takes away from the time
that IT administrators have to work on streamlining operations. Each
server must be updated, archived and backed up individually and requires
an IT admin to spend much of their time monitoring these processes.
These problems are eliminated by switching to a virtualization platform.
A virtualization platform allows a company to store its applications
and operating systems on a single server. This consolidates the
information and eliminates the presence of unused space on multiple
servers so that the company does not need to spend the money for
equipment it will not use to the maximum capability. The data stored on
the single machine is accessed by different virtual terminals that share
the server's resources.
Consolidating the information to a single server also greatly reduces
the amount of time that a company's IT admins must spend focused on the
maintenance of their servers; leaving them available to work on other
aspects of the business means that they will be able to save the company
money by streamlining other operations.
There are some obstacles that must be overcome to ensure that a
virtualization platform operates as smoothly as possible. 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 resize do not shrink when
data are deleted. These are a few of the problems that can occur on the
platform.
Other problems can include increased boot-up and shut-down times on the
system, stopping employees from accessing the information that they need
to complete their jobs, and even diminished storage capacity and
reduced hardware life. These problems can reduce the efficiency of the
entire platform and limit the benefits that a company receives from
using a virtualization platform.
Luckily there is a way to eliminate these problems and guarantee maximum
performance from the virtual platform. V-locity is a
virtual platform
disk optimizer that uses a unique blend of technology to eliminate the
threats that virtualization platforms face. These technologies protect
the virtualization platform from the resource conflicts, reduced storage
capacity and I/O conflicts that many companies have seen as deterrents.
Virtualization platforms offer companies a number of different benefits
for storing their applications and operating systems that are unmatched
by multiple server environments, but it is important that the platform
is properly protected. Installing
V-locity virtual platform disk
optimizer allows a company to ensure that they are getting the maximum
use out of their platform and is the only way to ensure maximum I/O
performance on virtual machines.
