To increase profits a company must find a way to reduce
the money that it is spending while streamlining their business
operations to improve efficiency. Companies try many different ways to
do this but rarely take the time to examine their business management
systems. These systems hold a company's operating systems and
applications and until recently have been set up as multiple server
environments. Multiple server environments created an excessive amount
of waste by requiring expensive hardware purchases and attention from IT
network administrators to care for the machines. With the advent of
virtualization platforms companies can now increase their IT network
efficiency and reduce the cost of operating their business management
system.
Virtualization platforms allow a company to condense all of their
applications and operating systems onto a single server. The information
can then be accessed by different virtual machines that share the
server's resources. Storing applications and operating systems on a
single machine helps a company reduce the money they need to spend
purchasing, storing and maintaining multiple servers. Additionally, when
servers are used to store a single piece of information the remaining
space is unused and adds up quickly across multiple machines, condensing
storage allows virtualization platforms to eliminate this waste.
Virtualization servers also allow the IT admins to increase their
productivity. Caring for multiple machines takes an incredible amount of
time and forces them to repeat the same tasks again and again. Reducing
this work allows the IT admins to focus their skills elsewhere in the
company to improve company's operating efficiency.
Virtualization platforms are incredibly effective and efficient but they
do encounter problems that can cause them to run slower and not perform
to their highest capabilities. These platforms encounter I/O bandwidth
bottlenecks due to accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine
competition for shared I/O resources is not prioritized effectively
across the platform and dynamic disks not resizing when data are deleted
can lead to virtual disk "bloat." These problems limit the benefits
that a company receives but are easily avoidable with a
virtualization
platform disk optimizer.
A virtualization platform disk optimizer like V-locity 3 is software
that works to effectively eliminate the problems that cause decreased
performance on virtualization platforms.
V-locity 3 promotes faster
virtual machines and host I/O throughput, increases virtual machine
density and platform reliability, eliminates resource contention and
optimizes virtual machine resource usage within a shared storage system.
These benefits add up to increase the life of the hardware used in the
platform and reduce operating costs for the company.
V-locity 3 accomplishes this by using a unique blend of technologies. V-Aware™
detects external resource usage from other virtual machines
on the virtual platform, eliminating resource contention that would
exist on the same Host Sever. CogniSAN™ technology detects external
resource usage within a shared storage system and allows for transparent
optimization by not competing for resources utilized by other virtual
machines on the same storage infrastructure. Automatic Space Reclamation
zeroes out unused data blocks and makes virtual disk compaction easy.
VMotion or Live Migration can compact a disk while migrating virtual
disks. The process occurs with no need for a maintenance window. Special
Virtual Disk Auto Detection allows each V-locity 3 Guest to conform
optimization settings to the type of disk that the virtual machines is
using, like dynamic/thin disks and linked clones, to provide maximum
performance.
Switching to a virtualization platform is a great way for a company to
increase their IT network efficiency and lower the costs required to
host a multiple server environment. To truly receive the greatest value
from the new platform it is important that the company protect its
assets by installing a virtualization platform disk optimizer.
Installing V-locity is the best way to make sure that there are no
obstacles between the platform and peak efficiency and is the only way
to get maximum I/O performance from virtual machines.
