Use a Virtualization Platform to Realize Maximum Efficiency

Aug. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- Companies put forth a lot of effort to make sure that they are getting the most value out of their investments. However, they rarely take the time to examine their business management system to see if the current setup is outdated. Companies running multiple server environments do not realize that their setup is not the ideal way to maximize efficiency because it is the way it has always been done. These companies should switch to virtualization platforms to improve overall network efficiency and reduce operating costs.

Multiple server environments used to be the only way to store a company's operating systems and applications and ensure that they were protected from harm. It required that each operating system and application be placed on its own dedicated server. This allowed for each server to run independently and not be affected by any one server crashing but also created an incredible amount of wasted time and space.

Most servers only stored a single operating system or application. The remainder of the space would be unused and become a waste. As companies increased the number of servers in their setup wasted space grew and efficiency decreased. The increased number of servers also limited the ability of IT administrators to do their jobs. Each server had to be backed up, archived, and generally maintained which takes the IT admins away from other tasks to complete these time consuming jobs.

Virtualization platforms allow a company to condense their operating systems and applications onto a single server. This server can then be accessed by different virtual machines that all share the server's resources. Virtualization platforms keep information secure by storing different applications and operating systems in their own dedicated secure areas so that a problem will not spread to the entire server.

Virtualization platforms do have some obstacles that can lead to less than optimal performance. 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 that are set to dynamically grow do not change size when data are deleted. In addition platforms may experience slower backup times, slower virtual migration, resource conflicts, reduced hardware life, slow boot up time and bloated disks. These problems can combine to seriously inflate the operating costs of the virtual platform.

To avoid these problems a company needs to install a virtual platform disk optimizer on their virtualization platform. This will stop many of the problems that arise on virtual platforms and allow the company to gain the maximum return on their investment. To make sure that all of these problems are addressed a company should install V-locity virtual platform disk optimizer.

V-locity uses a unique blend of technologies to optimize a virtualization platform. With IntelliWrite (r) Technology V-locity writes much larger sequential disk I/Os and makes less work for the copy-on-write technology. InvisiTasking (r) Technology ensures that V-locity runs in the background and will not cut across the production needs of other virtual machines. Free space is maximized through virtual disk compaction, which displays space "holes" that have accumulated on Thin/Dynamic disks and provides a one-click option to begin compaction. V-locity is the only way to get the maximum I/O performance on virtual servers.

Using a virtualization platform to handle a company's business management system provides a way to reduce overhead costs and increase the IT network efficiency. Virtualization gives companies the same security for their operating systems and applications for a lower cost. V-locity is the best virtual platform disk optimizer available because of the technology that it uses and the results it produces.

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