Virtualization platforms provide companies with numerous
advantages over multiple server environments. Multiple server
environments create significant amounts of waste and decrease IT network
efficiency because they require large amounts of capital to set up and
are difficult to maintain once they are operational.
Multiple server environments require a company to place each individual
operating system and application on its own dedicated server. This means
that the company has to buy a large number of servers and pay to run
them, house them and protect them. In addition IT administrators have to
spend the majority of their time keeping these machines operational and
making sure that problems don’t arise.
A virtualization system allows a company to eliminate the problems
caused by multiple server environments by condensing their operating
systems and applications on one server. This eliminates the capital
requirements it takes to set up multiple servers. It also lets the IT
admins do maintenance on a single machine and focus their time elsewhere
to help the company streamline their processes.
Virtualization platforms do have common problems that can reduce
performance and reduce the advantages that a company is expecting. These
problems arise when resources are not shared efficiently and I/O
bandwidth is sacrificed. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks as a result of
accelerated fragmentation, resource conflicts arise as virtual machines
compete for shared resources without knowing the exact hardware usage
and wasted disk space occurs when virtual disks set to dynamically grow
do not shrink when data are deleted.
To combat these problems a company needs to install a
virtualization
platform disk optimizer like V-locity 3. This software works to actively
eliminate the problems that reduce performance of all VMware ESX/ESXi
and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor virtual platforms. To reduce resource
usage it operates automatically, smartly and invisibly with a unique
blend of technology.
V-locity 3 uses IntelliWrite® technology to prevent the majority of
fragmentation before it can happen. This boosts performance speed on the
platform. V-Aware™ detects external resource usage from other virtual
machines and eliminates resource contention that can otherwise exist on
the same Host Server. CogniSAN™ technology recognizes external resource
usage on a shared storage system and allows for transparent optimization
by never competing for resources with other virtual machines.
Automatic zeroing of free space will zero out unused data blocks on
virtual disks to make virtual disk compaction easier. This happens
online and can reclaim the unused free space to improve VM Density and
energy efficiency. Special Virtual Disk Auto Detection lets each
V-locity Guest conform its optimization settings to the type of virtual
disk that the machine is using for optimal performance.
A virtualization platform will help a company reduce the waste that is
associated with their multiple server environments. Using a
virtualization platform is easy but it must be protected from the
problems that reduce efficiency and limit the return on investment that
the company receives. Installing V-locity 3 virtualization platform disk
optimizer will protect the system from a variety of problems to provide
the maximum efficiency available.
