Companies need to stay ahead of their competition to make
sure that they are providing the best possible service and don't lose
customers to other companies. This is especially true when it comes to
using technology to streamline processes and cut costs. For years many
companies used multiple server environments to organize their business
management system. When compared to a virtualization platform, these
environments are wrought with extra costs.
Multiple server environments require that a company place each
individual operating system and application on its own dedicated server.
This assured the company that any problems they had with a program
would be contained to a single area, but resulted in a tremendous amount
of waste. Money had to be spent on each individual server to purchase,
house and maintain the machine. Each server was rarely used to store
more than a single application or operating system which resulted in an
incredible amount of free space going unused. Across multiple servers
this waste added up to become extremely costly to the company.
Virtualization platforms eliminate this waste by allowing a company to
place their operating systems and applications on a single server. Each
application and operating system is stored in its own secure area so
that a problem with one will not affect the rest of the server.
Different virtual machines can be used to access the resources housed on
the server. This arrangement eliminates the wasted space that multiple
servers create and limits the spending needed to establish the business
management system.
Virtualization platforms are not invulnerable. There are several
obstacles that must be overcome to ensure maximum performance and reduce
I/O bandwidth conflicts. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks as a result of
continuous generating of unnecessary I/Os, resource conflicts as virtual
machines compete for shared resources without exact knowledge of
hardware resource usage and wasted space occurring when virtual disks do
not shrink when data are deleted can limit the performance of a
virtualization platform.
Avoiding these obstacles is crucial to maintaining a fast and reliable
virtual platform and installing a
virtualization platform disk optimizer
is the best way to make sure the problems will not affect your
platform.
V-locity 3 is a virtual platform disk optimizer that combines
unique technologies to ensure the best performance from all VMware
ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-v hypervisor virtual platforms.
IntelliWrite® Technology prevents most fragmentation before it happens
to boost performance speed while V-Aware™ detects external resource
usage from other virtual machines and eliminates the resource contention
that can otherwise exist on the same Host Server. CogniSAN™
technology detects external resource usage on a shared storage system
and allows for transparent optimization by never competing for resources
with other virtual machines.
Automatic Space Reclamation will zero out unused data blocks on virtual
disks to ease the compaction process. VMotion (VMware) or Live Migration
(Microsoft) disks can be compacted on-the-fly while they migrate
virtual disks. This process happens online so that 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. All of these processes take place invisibly so as not
to place too much of a strain on the systems resources by using
InvisiTasking® technology.
Virtualization platforms have incredible cost saving abilities by
providing features that multiple server environments cannot. The faster
speeds and limited fixed costs allow a company to focus their resources
in better ways and operate more efficiently. Virtualization platforms
are only beneficial as long as they are kept healthy. V-locity 3 is the
best way for a company to protect their platform and make sure that they
are receiving the maximum benefit.
