Recently many companies have been noticing the advantages
of switching their business management system from a multiple server
environment to a virtualization platform. Virtualization platforms offer
companies significantly reduced operating costs and greatly improve IT
network efficiency to help companies become more streamlined and
profitable. Protecting these virtual platforms with a virtualization
platform disk optimizer is a must to receive the maximum benefit.
Multiple server environments have been around for a long time and were
the standard way that companies stored their applications and operating
systems. Placing each application and operating system on a single
server allowed companies to ensure that their data was protected in the
event that a server had problems, but it also required a large number of
servers and money. Each machine had to be purchased, stored, powered
and maintained as well as cared for by an IT administrator. This took
tremendous capital and forced the IT admins to focus on repetitive tasks
rather than other jobs that could benefit the company.
Virtualization platforms solved these problems by giving companies a
secure way to store information on a single server. Applications and
operating systems are condensed onto a single server where they are kept
in their own secure areas. This way a problem with a single piece of
information does not affect the rest of the server and work can carry on
as usual. Putting the information in one place also allowed the company
to limit the money it took to operate the system. IT admins are able to
quickly back up, archive and perform maintenance on the lone machine so
that they can focus their attention on more important jobs.
Virtualization platforms are not without problems. They are dynamic
systems that respond to the needs of the moment but must be protected
from common problems that cause resources to be inefficiently allocated
and sacrifice I/O bandwidth. These problems include I/O bottlenecks as a
result of continuous generation of unnecessary I/Os and create slower
speeds. Resource conflicts as virtual machines compete for shared
resources without knowing the exact hardware resource usage. Wasted disk
space occurs when virtual disks that are set to dynamically grow do not
shrink when data are deleted and create unusable free space.
Getting around these problems is important and can be done by installing
a
virtual platform disk optimizer. V-locity 3 is a virtual platform
disk optimizer that is designed to improve the performance and efficacy
of all VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-v hypervisor virtual
platforms automatically, intelligently and invisibly.
V-locity 3 combines unique technologies to deliver the best optimization
of virtual platforms and create faster virtual machine and host I/O
throughput, increase virtual machine density, increase platform
reliability, zero resource contention, optimize virtual resource usage
within a shared storage system, increase hardware life and lower
operating costs.
IntelliWrite® Technology prevents most fragmentation before it can
happen and boosts performance speeds. V-Aware™ detects external resource
usage from other virtual machines and will eliminate resource
contention that can otherwise exist on the same Host Server. CongiSAN™
technology will detect external resource usage on a shared storage
system, allowing for transparent optimization because it never competes
for resources with other virtual machines.
Automatic Space Reclamation is used to zero out unused data blocks on
virtual disks and ease the compaction process. This lets VMotion
(VMware) or Live Migration (Microsoft) compact a disk on-the-fly when
they migrate virtual disks. Because Automatic Space Reclamation happens
online there is no need for a maintenance window. Special Virtual Disk
Auto Detection lets each V-locity Guest conform its optimization
settings to the type of virtual disk that the virtual machine is using.
V-locity 3 ensures that these processes take place invisibly in the
background with InvisiTasking® technology to eliminate the resource
impact on the system.
Virtualization systems offer incredible benefits over the outdated
multiple server environments that some companies choose to use. Faster
speeds and much improved IT network efficiency reduce the fixed costs
for a business and allow IT admins more time to focus on important
tasks. Making sure that they platform is kept healthy is a big part of
maximizing the benefits and using V-locity 3 is the most effective
software to use.
