Many companies do their best to keep up with advances in
technology. These advances often help to streamline operations, improve
efficiency and eliminate wasted time. One piece of old technology that
many companies seem reluctant to do away with is multiple server
environments. Multiple server environments are how many companies stored
their operating systems and applications while knowing that a single
server crashing would not affect the rest of their information. This
technology has become outdated thanks to the advancement of
virtualization platforms.
Multiple server environments are considered safe because each operating
system and application is housed on its own dedicated server. If one
server experiences problems or crashes the other servers are able to
continue functioning and work can still be done. A byproduct of these
environments is tremendous waste. Servers are rarely used to house
anything more than a single application or operating system, resulting
in wasted space. At the same time IT administrators must dedicate their
time to making sure that each server is running at its fullest capacity,
backing up and archiving data. When this waste is multiplied by the
number of servers that the company is using the result is staggering.
Virtualization platforms allow companies to avoid this waste and still
not have to worry about all of their information being compromised in
the event of a crash. In a virtual platform applications and operating
systems are stored on a single server that can be accessed by different
virtual machines that share the server's resources. Each individual
application and operating system is stored in its own secure area. This
ensures that a problem in one area will not spread and affect the rest
of the information the company relies on daily.
Consolidating information on to a single server eliminates the
accumulation of wasted space that occurs in multiple server
environments. It also allows the IT admins to only focus on the one
physical machine and dedicate more of their time to solving more
pressing company issues.
Virtualization platforms provide companies with many benefits but there
are some obstacles that must be overcome to reach peak efficiency.
Platforms can experience slow boot-up and shut-down times, diminished
storage space and reduced hardware capacity. 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 designed to resize do not shrink after data are
deleted. These problem limit the effectiveness of the virtual platform
and can reduce the benefits the company sought by adopting the new
platform.
Luckily protecting a virtualization platform from these problems is
neither expensive nor difficult. A company simply needs to install a
virtual platform disk optimizer on the platform. This software, like
V-locity, is designed to eliminate these problems from the onset and
keep the platform running quickly and efficiently to create less waste.
V-locity combines a unique blend of technology to provide companies with
superior protection from against these obstacles. Designed to work
invisibly so as not to cut across the production needs of other virtual
machines V-locity eliminates reduces I/O conflicts on the server to
create maximum operating speed. V-locity also provides a graphical user
interface that can be used to create free space on the server by
eliminating space "holes" that accumulate on thin/dynamic disks.
Virtualization platforms provide companies with tremendous advantages
and savings over outdated multiple server environments but they are only
as effective as the protection they receive. Installing a virtual
platform disk optimizer allows the company to receive the highest
computing efficiency and the maximum I/O performance.
