Achieve Maximum I/O Performance with a Virtualization Platform Disk Optimizer

Running a successful business means that costs must be kept low while business operations are handled quickly and efficiently. To achieve both of these goals companies often look to technology to provide them with newer, faster ways to improve the processes that they use every day. This is why many companies are switching from their multiple server environments to virtualization platforms.

Multiple server environments are an outdated way for companies to store their applications and operating systems. Each individual operating system or application has to be stored on a dedicated server. This creates the need for the company to buy, power, maintain and find a place to store a large number of machines. At the same time, because each server only holds a single piece of information, the remaining space is wasted. As servers are added to a system these problems continue to grow.

On a virtualization platform companies can condense their operating systems and applications on to a single server. The information on the server can be accessed by different virtual machines that share the server’s resources. Operating systems and applications are stored in separate and secure areas so that a problem with one will not create problems across the server. Condensing the information eliminates the wasted space that comes with multiple servers and reduces the costs associated with purchasing multiple machines.

Virtualization platforms offer these benefits to companies that choose to adopt them, but they can only be used to their full potential if kept protected from the problems that cause slowdowns and inefficiencies. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks happen faster due to accelerated fragmentation. Resource conflicts can arise as different virtual machines compete on the same virtual server. Space can become wasted as disks set to dynamically grow do not shrink when data are deleted. These problems and more can be prevented by installing a virtualization platform disk optimizer.

A virtualization platform disk optimizer is special software that is designed specifically to curb the threats that will make a virtual platform perform worse. V-locity 3 is a top of the line software that uses a unique blend of technology to create the best operating conditions for all VMware ESX/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-v hypervisor platforms.

IntelliWrite® technology is used to prevent the majority of fragmentation on the virtual disk before it happens to improve speeds and keep the system running smoothly. V-aware™ detects external resource usage from other virtual machines and will eliminate the resource contention that will occur on the same Host Server. CogniSAN technology detects external storage usage on a shared storage system and transparently optimizes the system to eliminate resource competition with other virtual machines.

Special Virtual Disk Auto Detection allows Guests on V-locity to conform their optimization settings to the specific virtual disk that the machine is using. Automatic Zeroing of Free Space eases the compaction process by zeroing out unused data blocks that are present on the virtual disk. Storage migration will reclaim the unused free space to improve VM density and encourage the system to be more energy efficient. V-locity 3 ensures that it will not cut across the resource needs of other virtual machines by operating invisibly in the background with InvisiTasking® technology.

Adopting a virtualization platform is a smart decision for any company. Compared to a multiple server environment a virtualization platform will provide a faster business management system while cutting the costs that are associated with having multiple servers. To get the full benefits of a virtualization platform a company must protect it with software like V-locity 3. V-locity 3 will ensure maximum I/O performance on your virtual machines.