Upgrade to a Virtualization Platform for Maximum Computing Efficiency

Aug. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- Many companies do their best to keep up with advances in technology. These advances often help to streamline operations, improve efficiency and eliminate wasted time. One piece of old technology that many companies seem reluctant to do away with is multiple server environments. Multiple server environments are how many companies stored their operating systems and applications while knowing that a single server crashing would not affect the rest of their information. This technology has become outdated thanks to the advancement of virtualization platforms.

Multiple server environments are considered safe because each operating system and application is housed on its own dedicated server. If one server experiences problems or crashes the other servers are able to continue functioning and work can still be done. A byproduct of these environments is tremendous waste. Servers are rarely used to house anything more than a single application or operating system, resulting in wasted space. At the same time IT administrators must dedicate their time to making sure that each server is running at its fullest capacity, backing up and archiving data. When this waste is multiplied by the number of servers that the company is using the result is staggering.

Virtualization platforms allow companies to avoid this waste and still not have to worry about all of their information being compromised in the event of a crash. In a virtual platform applications and operating systems are stored on a single server that can be accessed by different virtual machines that share the server's resources. Each individual application and operating system is stored in its own secure area. This ensures that a problem in one area will not spread and affect the rest of the information the company relies on daily.

Consolidating information on to a single server eliminates the accumulation of wasted space that occurs in multiple server environments. It also allows the IT admins to only focus on the one physical machine and dedicate more of their time to solving more pressing company issues.

Virtualization platforms provide companies with many benefits but there are some obstacles that must be overcome to reach peak efficiency. Platforms can experience slow boot-up and shut-down times, diminished storage space and reduced hardware capacity. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks faster due to accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources is not prioritized effectively across the platform and virtual disks designed to resize do not shrink after data are deleted. These problem limit the effectiveness of the virtual platform and can reduce the benefits the company sought by adopting the new platform.

Luckily protecting a virtualization platform from these problems is neither expensive nor difficult. A company simply needs to install a virtual platform disk optimizer on the platform. This software, like V-locity, is designed to eliminate these problems from the onset and keep the platform running quickly and efficiently to create less waste.

V-locity combines a unique blend of technology to provide companies with superior protection from against these obstacles. Designed to work invisibly so as not to cut across the production needs of other virtual machines V-locity eliminates reduces I/O conflicts on the server to create maximum operating speed. V-locity  also provides a graphical user interface that can be used to create free space on the server by eliminating space "holes" that accumulate on thin/dynamic disks.

Virtualization platforms provide companies with tremendous advantages and savings over outdated multiple server environments but they are only as effective as the protection they receive. Installing a virtual platform disk optimizer allows the company to receive the highest computing efficiency and the maximum I/O performance.

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