New V-locity 3 - First Ever Virtual Platform Disk Optimiser with Online Zeroing of Free Space

New V-locity 3 - First Ever Virtual Platform Disk Optimiser with Online Zeroing of Free Space

LONDON, October 4, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    The release of V-locity(R) 3, Diskeeper Corporation's virtual platform
disk optimizer, includes the first ever online function for zeroing free
space. This powerful engine zeros out unused data blocks on virtual disks
and makes virtual disk compaction easy. It also allows Storage vMotion(TM)
(VMware(R)) or Quick Storage Migration (Microsoft(R)) to compact a disk when
migrating virtual disks - In some cases, zeroed free space can even be
reclaimed during a storage migration on the virtual platform.

    Naveen Louis, Technical Consultant for Diskeeper Corporation comments:

    "With this new technology users can now, for the first time, prepare
free space for reclamationwithout taking the machines offline."

    He further states "With thin disks you needn't allocate all of your
storage up front. While this helps with better storage management, the
drawback is deleted space not being refunded automatically. The watermark of
disk growth rises and rises. The solution is setting up a disk compaction
schedule, historically requiring an administrator to endure a lengthy
process of zeroing every bit of free space on a thin disk up to full
provisioning while that virtual machine is offline. With V-locity 3, zeroing
of free space occurs online, automatically, and invisibly-no lost
production. Subsequently running disk compaction from your virtual platform
reclaims all of that unused space to the storage array."

    V-locity 3 also has full integration with VMware(R) ESXi(TM), as well as
support for other platforms such as ESX(TM), Microsoft(R) Hyper-V(R), and
Citrix(R) XenServer(TM). Other new features include V-Aware(TM) which will
detect external resource usage from other VM's on the virtual platform and
eliminate resource contention on the Server host. New CogniSAN(TM) detects
external resource usage within a shared storage system - such as a SAN.

    "The Space Reclamation feature ensures that unused space on virtual
drives is zeroed out and compacted in such a way that when a virtual guest
is migrated to a different virtual server via Storage vMotion(TM), only the
allocated data is transferred. This speeds up the virtual storage migration
process and decreases the load on the shared storage subsystem." - Bill
Moller, RainWorx

    "I see the V-Aware portion as the biggest benefit. Also the performance
I have seen running the new version and I like the fact that we no longer
have to install anything on the ESX host." - Tom Ruane, IT Manager,
Churchill Corporate Services, Inc.

    V-locity 3 Key Benefits:

   
    - Faster VM and host I/O throughput
    - Increased VM density
    - Increased platform reliability
    - Eliminated resource contention
    - Optimized VM resource usage within a shared storage system
    - Increased hardware life
    - Lowered operating costs
    - All done fully automatic and transparently

    About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability
Technologies(R):

    Diskeeper Corporation is a VMware Elite Technical Alliance Partner and
Microsoft Gold Competency ISV Partner. CIO's, IT Managers and System
Administrators of Global Fortune 1000 and Forbes 500 enterprises rely on
Diskeeper Corporation's storage performance software to make their physical
and virtual systems faster, more reliable, longer lived, and energy
efficient. Free trial ware and further information at
http://www.diskeeper.com.

    (c) 2011 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. V-locity, V-Aware,
CogniSAN, and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are
trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the
properties of their respective owners.

Source: Diskeeper Corporation

Media contact: For Immediate Release, Contact: Dorian Culmer, Email: d.culmer@diskeeper.co.uk, Phone: +44(0)1293-763-060