Keep Your Virtualization Platform Healthy with a Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer

Sept. 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Virtualization platforms offer companies significant advantages over multiple server environments. They increase the IT network efficiency of the company and also reduce costs and time commitments to creating a business management system. Multiple server environments create unnecessary wasted space and need to be constantly worked on by IT network administrators. Virtualization platforms are the solution to these problems.

A multiple server environment requires that each application and operating system be stored on its own dedicated server. This requires companies to spend a lot of money purchasing and housing the servers while accumulating wasted space that the company will not use. Each additional server also requires an IT admin to take time out of his or her day to update, archive and back up the server.

Virtualization platforms provide a company with a way to eliminate multiple server environments. On a virtualization platform each application and operating system can be consolidated onto a single server. The server can then be accessed by different virtual machines that share the server's resources. This eliminates the need to purchase and house multiple machines and eliminates wasted space. Consolidating information also allows IT admins to focus their skills in areas that can benefit the company.

A virtual infrastructure is dynamic and responds and responds to the needs of the moment but it must be protected from common problems that cause resources to be shared inefficiently and cause the platform to sacrifice I/O bandwidth. These problems include I/O bottlenecks that are the product of continuous generation unnecessary I/Os and result in slower speeds. Resource conflicts as virtual machines compete for shared resources without knowing the exact hardware resource usage. Wasted disk space happens when virtual disks that are set to dynamically change size do not shrink when data are removed, resulting in unusable disk space on the platform.

To combat these problems it is important that a company installs a virtualization platform disk optimizer. V-locity 3 is a virtualization platform disk optimizer that is designed to improve the performance and efficiency of all VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor virtual platforms. It does this automatically, smartly and invisibly.

V-locity 3 uses a unique blend of technology to create faster virtual machine and host I/O throughput, increase virtual machine density, increase platform reliability, zero resource contention, optimize virtual resource usage within a shared storage system, increase hardware life and lower operating costs. IntelliWrite®  Technology is used to prevent most fragmentation before it can happen to boost performance speed. V-Aware™ detects external resource usage from other virtual machines and eliminates resource contention that would otherwise exist on the same Host Server. CogniSAN™ technology detects external resource usage on a shared storage system and allows for transparent optimization by never competing for resources with other virtual machines.

V-locity 3 also incorporates Automatic Space Reclamation to zero out unused data blocks on virtual disks and ease the compaction process, allowing for VMotion or Live Migration to compact disks on-the-fly. Special Virtual Disk Auto Detection allows each V-locity Guest to conform its optimization settings to the type of virtual disk that the virtual machine is using. InvisiTasking® technology means that this all happens invisibly in the background to eliminate resource impact.

Every virtualization system needs to be protected from the problems that decrease the value of the entire platform. Preventing these problems takes no more effort than installing a virtualization platform disk optimizer like V-locity 3 that will eliminate all of the common problems that present obstacles to virtualization platforms operate at their peak efficiency.

# # #

WooEB Community is a business, music and social networking community. WooEB provides members with a wealth of applications that enable them to create an in-depth profile within the community.