Tips To Avoid Virtual Machine Issues
by Mike White
Virtual machine applications such as Parallels, Virtual Pc
and VM Ware are becoming increasingly popular as they allow
users a number of options that would otherwise be
unavailable to them for example a clean system for faster
performance or perhaps the ability to test an application in
isolation from your main operating system. Sadly the common
hard drive is still a factor that needs consideration as
fragmentation can cause data problems.
If you are fortunate enough to have very deep pockets then
you may be using SSD's or solid state drives. These still
remain expensive and are out of the reach of most users who
still have to rely (although getting much faster) on the
slowest and some would say the most vulnerable technology in
your computer- the hard drive. Hard drive fragmentation can
cause problems with virtual machines and in some cases even
data loss.
Fragmentation is where a file is split into multiple
components by the operating system to allow it to fit in
available space of the hard disk drive. When you are
already running one operating system, and fragmentation
becomes an issue, running another highly fragmented system
on top of this causes a tremendous slow down in performance.
Fragmentation is the scourge of modern computers as most
people fail to conduct even the most basic maintenance on
their computers. The situation just get worse over time and
some people have even been known to purchase a new system
even though there is nothing wrong with the old. On servers
and raid arrays fragmentation is far more serious as it
slows down business applications and reduces productivity.
In very bad instances data recovery is the only method of
saving the data.
You would like to think that as the problem of file
fragmentation has been with us since the advent of hard
drive based computer systems, operating system vendors would
have come up with a software solution to ensure the problem
is eradicated at source. Whilst Mac OS X will partially help
with files under a 20 mb size, Windows operating systems
seem to pay it no heed whatsoever.
Defragmentation utilities can take care of this problem,
however, running them practically ties up the machine until
completion, slowing the machine to a crawl. So what can be
done to remove this issue? There are a number of
possibilities that can be tried.
Use automated defragmentation routines: Dependent upon your
OS you can normally, either directly in the OS itself or via
third party software; schedule defrags to run at times
convenient to yourself.
Invest in dedicated hardware. Not the cheapest solution but
for business and power user home systems probably the most
sensible route. Dedicated hardware could be an additional
hard drive (internal or external) a dedicated raid array or
even an SSD device. The actual solution will depend on how
mission critical the application actually is. - 15668
About the author: Mike White is a technology journalist
specialising in business computing,
(http://www.abcdatarecovery.co.uk) Hard Drive Repair,
(http://www.abcdatarecovery.co.uk/Server-RAID/) Raid
Recovery computer hardware and design and technology news
and events.
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Title: Tips To Avoid Virtual Machine Issues
Author: Mike White
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Keywords: VM Machines,Virtual Machines,Data Recovery,Hard Drive Fragmentation
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Category: Computers:Hardware
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