Companies are always searching for ways to improve their business practices while reducing the costs that they incur on a daily basis. For years they were forced to spend lots of money on their business management systems because multiple server environments were the best available option. These setups provided security for the company’s valuable information but left large amounts of wasted space and high costs behind. Now there are virtualization platforms that give companies all the security advantages of a multiple server environment while eliminating the biggest problems.
Multiple server environments allowed companies to put their applications and operating systems on different physical servers. This kept the information on the servers safe in the event that one server became corrupted, but it was very expensive. To purchase servers, power them, maintain them and have a place to store them all cost money. Because only one application or operating system is held on any server, the remaining space is often wasted with no plans to be used. Across multiple machines these wastes add up and create a large loss for the company.
Virtualization platforms eliminate this waste while still maintaining the security of each operating system and application. On a virtualization platform applications and operating systems are condensed onto a single server that can be accessed by different virtual machines. Each application and operating system is kept in its own secure area so that if one becomes corrupted the others will not be affected and can continue to be used.
Virtualization platforms provide plenty of advantages for companies that are looking to save money and improve their performance but they must be kept healthy to provide the greatest advantages. If the platform is not protected it can slow down and problems like I/O bandwidth bottlenecks due to advanced fragmentation, virtual machine resource competition on the server, and dynamic disks not shrinking when data are deleted will arise. To prevent these problems a company needs to protect its virtual platform with a
virtualization platform disk optimizer.
Virtualization platform disk optimizers like V-locity 3 provide virtualization platforms with the tools to prevent problems that affect performance. Installing V-locity 3 on any VMware ESX/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-v hypervisor platform gives a company the confidence that their platform is operating as quickly and efficiently as possible by preventing problems before they arise.
V-locity 3 blends together technologies that provide top-of-the-line protection against common threats. IntelliWrite® technology will prevent most fragmentation on the virtual disk before it can happen. 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 is used to detect external storage usage on shared storage systems and eliminates resource competition with other virtual machines by transparently optimizing the system.
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 is used to zero out the unused data blocks present on the virtual disk and ease the compaction process. Storage migration reclaims unused free space to improve VM density and encourage the system to be energy efficient.
Using a virtualization platform improves any company’s performance because it is a way to reduce costs while simultaneously creating a more efficient business management system. For all the advantages that virtualization platforms offer they are only as efficient as the software protecting them from the dangers that develop with use. Installing V-locity 3 as your virtualization platform disk optimizer is the best way to ensure that you are getting the most out of your virtualization platform.
