Atlanta 10/12/2011 11:26:28 PM
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Virtualization Platforms Save Money and Increase Efficiency When Protected a With Virtualization Platform Disk Optimizer

To stay ahead of the industry competition a company needs to find the newest and best ways to make sure that they are maximizing the value of the money that they are spending. One of the most common wastes of money in the business world is using a multiple server environment to operate the business management system.  Multiple server environments create waste in several different ways and have been rendered obsolete by more cost effective and efficient virtualization platforms.

Multiple server environments require that every application and operating system be required to have a dedicated server where it is stored. This forces a company to purchase multiple machines which increases overall expenses through initial purchase costs, housing costs, maintenance costs and energy costs. Because a company with multiple operating systems and applications will have a number of different servers, there will also be a great deal of wasted space on servers that are not actively used to store information. The company pays for space it never plans on using. When multiple machines are used these costs quickly add up and can become burdensome.

Luckily virtualization platforms allow companies to avoid these issues. On a virtualization platform companies can condense their applications and operating systems onto a single server that can then be accessed by different virtual machines. This allows a company to limit the money they are spending on extra space they don’t plan on using and everything else associated with having several machines.

With several virtual machines sharing the resources of a single virtualization server, there are times when the platforms efficiency is threatened. Performance can decrease because of bandwidth bottlenecks caused by accelerated fragmentation, resources are not allocated properly causing conflicts and dynamic disks may not shrink when data are deleted. These problems can quickly strip the platform of the advantages that a company sought in the first place. To keep these problems from arising it is important that the virtual platform be kept in good working order with a virtualization platform disk optimizer.

When deciding which virtualization platform disk optimizer is the best for your virtualization platform it is important to remember what they are designed to do. The software protects and enhances the performance of your virtualization platform so choosing one like V-locity 3 that eliminates a variety of problems provides the best overall results for your VMware ESX/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-v hypervisor platform.

V-locity works by combining a number of different unique technologies to create the best operating environment. IntelliWrite® technology prevents the majority of fragmentation on the virtual disk before it happens to maintain hazard free operation. V-aware™ detects external resource usage from other virtual machines to eliminate the resource contention that otherwise exists 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 zeroes out unused data blocks present on the virtual disk to ease the compaction process. Storage migration reclaims the unused free space and will improve VM density and promote energy efficiency on the system. To avoid these processes cutting across the production needs of other virtual machines V-locity 3 uses IvisiTasking® technology to operate invisibly in the background.

Maximizing the value of every dollar a company spends is crucial to creating a culture of success. Using a virtualization platform eliminates the wasteful spending that is associated with multiple server environments and the ways that they force poor spending upon companies. To make sure that your virtual platform is offering you the best value possible, make sure it is protected with a virtualization platform disk optimizer that will ensure maximum I/O performance like V-locity 3.