Keep Your Virtualization Platform Running Smoothly with a Virtualization Platform Disk Optimizer

Companies have recently begun to switch their business operating systems from multiple server environments to virtualization platforms. Virtualization platforms offer considerable advantages over multiple server environments by providing a less expensive set up and creating faster speeds through greater efficiency.

Multiple server environments create problems because they require a large number of servers. Each individual operating system and application is stored on its own dedicated server. This requires a company to spend money purchasing, maintaining, storing and powering the machines. With a few servers these costs can be managed but as the number of servers grows so does the cost. At the same time, because each server only holds the one application or operating system, the remaining space on the servers is wasted. Virtualization eliminates both of these problems.

On a virtualization platform operating systems and applications are all stored on a single server. This server can then be accessed through separate virtual machines that are able to share the server’s resources. To provide security, each application and operating system is stored in a secure area. A problem that arises in one area will not affect the other areas and they can continue to function normally. By condensing the data to a single server space is not wasted on the different machines and the cost of operating the machine is drastically reduced.

A virtualization platform offers incredible advantages to a company but it must be kept in good health. A virtualization platform that is not protected can develop I/O bandwidth bottlenecks, resource contention amongst the virtual machines and the development of space “holes” that create unusable free space on the disk.

Preventing these problems is as easy as installing a virtualization platform disk optimizer. This software, like V-locity 3, is specifically designed to protect the server from common problems that lead to inefficiencies and slowdowns. V-locity 3 uses a unique combination of advanced technologies to protect the performance of all VMware ESX/ESXi or Hyper-v hypervisor platforms.

IntelliWrite® technology prevents most fragmentation before it can happen to allow the system to operate quickly and smoothly. V-aware™ detects external resource usage from other virtual machines and eliminates the resource contention that will otherwise exist on the same Host Server. CogniSAN technology detects external storage usage on a shared storage system and transparently optimizes the system to eliminate competition with other virtual machines for resources.

Special Virtual Disk Auto Detection allows Guests on a V-locity platform to conform optimization settings to the specific virtual disk being used by the machine. Unused data blocks present on the virtual disks are zeroed out with Automatic Zeroing of Free Space making the compaction process easier. Storage migration reclaims the unused free space to improve the VM density and make the system more efficient. InvisiTasking technology allows V-locity 3 to operate invisibly in the background so it does not interfere with the resource needs of other programs.

Virtualization platforms are becoming increasingly popular as companies realize the benefits that they can bring. Reducing overall spending and waste allow companies to devote their time and resources to other places without worrying about their servers. Making sure that the system is healthy is a big part of keeping the system running well and the best way to protect it is with V-locity 3.