Companies put forth a lot of effort to make sure that
they are getting the most value out of their investments. However, they
rarely take the time to examine their business management system to see
if the current setup is outdated. Companies running multiple server
environments do not realize that their setup is not the ideal way to
maximize efficiency because it is the way it has always been done. These
companies should switch to virtualization platforms to improve overall
network efficiency and reduce operating costs.
Multiple server environments used to be the only way to store a
company's operating systems and applications and ensure that they were
protected from harm. It required that each operating system and
application be placed on its own dedicated server. This allowed for each
server to run independently and not be affected by any one server
crashing but also created an incredible amount of wasted time and space.
Most servers only stored a single operating system or application. The
remainder of the space would be unused and become a waste. As companies
increased the number of servers in their setup wasted space grew and
efficiency decreased. The increased number of servers also limited the
ability of IT administrators to do their jobs. Each server had to be
backed up, archived, and generally maintained which takes the IT admins
away from other tasks to complete these time consuming jobs.
Virtualization platforms allow a company to condense their operating
systems and applications onto a single server. This server can then be
accessed by different virtual machines that all share the server's
resources. Virtualization platforms keep information secure by storing
different applications and operating systems in their own dedicated
secure areas so that a problem will not spread to the entire server.
Virtualization platforms do have some obstacles that can lead to less
than optimal performance. 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 change size when data are
deleted. In addition platforms may experience slower backup times,
slower virtual migration, resource conflicts, reduced hardware life,
slow boot up time and bloated disks. These problems can combine to
seriously inflate the operating costs of the virtual platform.
To avoid these problems a company needs to install a virtual platform
disk optimizer on their virtualization platform. This will stop many of
the problems that arise on virtual platforms and allow the company to
gain the maximum return on their investment. To make sure that all of
these problems are addressed a company should install V-locity
virtual
platform disk optimizer.
V-locity uses a unique blend of technologies to optimize a
virtualization platform. With IntelliWrite
(r) Technology
V-locity
writes much larger sequential disk I/Os and makes less work for the
copy-on-write technology. InvisiTasking
(r) Technology ensures that
V-locity runs in the background and will not cut across the production
needs of other virtual machines. Free space is maximized through virtual
disk compaction, which displays space "holes" that have accumulated on
Thin/Dynamic disks and provides a one-click option to begin compaction.
V-locity is the only way to get the maximum I/O performance on virtual
servers.
Using a virtualization platform to handle a company's business
management system provides a way to reduce overhead costs and increase
the IT network efficiency. Virtualization gives companies the same
security for their operating systems and applications for a lower cost.
V-locity is the best virtual platform disk optimizer available because
of the technology that it uses and the results it produces.
