Maintain a Healthy Virtual Platform by Installing a Virtualization Platform Disk Optimizer

To stay ahead of their competition companies must find ways to reduce their spending while increasing the efficiency of their work. This leads many companies to try and find ways to spend less on the things they use regularly, but rarely leads companies to examine the technology that they rely on. Before a company takes drastic measures to reduce costs they need to make sure that their business management system is up to date.

In the past business management systems were run through multiple server environments. Companies put their applications and operating systems on individual dedicated servers to protect them from corruption. While this did provide security, it also created an incredible amount of wasted space and money. Operating a server requires a large investment not only to purchase the machine, but also to provide it with power, maintain it, and have a place to physically store the machine. With each machine only holding a single application or operating system, there is often a lot of free space left over that will never be used. These problems are multiplied across the number of machines in the multiple server environment to create large amounts of waste.

To eliminate this waste a company can switch to a virtualization platform. Virtualization platforms let companies condense their applications and operating systems onto a single server, the information on the server is stored in separate secure areas so that in the event of one area being corrupted, the others remain unharmed and can still be used. This eliminates the need to pay for multiple servers, storage space, and maintenance costs. It also reduces wasted space by using the storage capacity of the single machine.

Virtualization platforms provide solutions to the problems created by multiple server environments, but they must be kept in good working order for a company to receive the maximum benefits. When a virtualization platform is not healthy problems can arise that will slow down operations and limit efficiency. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks due to accelerated fragmentation, resource conflicts as different virtual machines compete for shared resources and disks set to resize not shrinking when data are deleted can all reduce the advantages that virtualization platforms provide.

Protecting a virtual platform against these problems is as easy as installing a virtualization platform disk optimizer. This software will prevent problems from arising by actively preventing the problems before they arise. V-locity 3 is a virtualization platform disk optimizer that provides top of the line protection for all VMware ESX/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-v hypervisor platforms.

V-locity 3 uses a unique blend of software to provide protection against the problems that slow down virtual platforms. IntelliWrite® technology prevents most fragmentation before it can happen to improve the platform’s performance. 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 is used to detect external storage usage on shared storage systems and transparently optimizes the system to eliminate resource competition with other virtual machines.

Special Virtual Disk Auto Detection allows any Guest on a V-locity platform to conform its optimization settings to the specific virtual disk that the machine is using. Automatic Zeroing of Free Space makes the compaction process easier by zeroing out unused data blocks present on the virtual disk. To ensure that V-locity performs its duties in the background and will not interfere with other program’s resource needs V-locity 3 includes InvisiTasking® technology.

Switching to a virtualization platform gives a company the ability to move on from its multiple server environment and eliminate the waste that it caused. Keeping the system safe is crucial to receiving the maximum benefits available and the best way to do that is by installing a virtualization platform disk optimizer. The best virtualization platform disk optimizer available is V-locity 3. It provides maximum I/O performance from virtual machines and gives a company the tools to stay ahead of the competition.