VDI offers row-pushedd desktop management for global, distributed businesses. Unfortunately, traditional storage solutions simply can't handle VDI's I/O bursts, leaving users disappointed by their inconsistent performance. And, traditional storage is difficult to scale, forcing IT to bring down systems to add new users.
HPE Nimble Storage's Adaptive Flash platform overcomes VDI's biggest challenges — at a price that makes sense for any business.
Overview:
Predictive Flash Platform
The HPE Nimble Storage predictive flash platform delivers a VDI experience that delights your end users, while accelerating ROI for VDI deployments. Deliver absolute performance, scale without disruption, and simplify operations.
Deliver a superior VDI user experience
Boot storms demand faster reads; steady state and maintenance operations call for rapid writes. Nimble delivers both.
- Ensure high VDI read and write performance with either flash or disk
- Choose all-flash for absolute performance, or adaptive flash to cost effectively deliver high performance
- Move VDI desktops between all-flash and adaptive flash to meet changing performance needs
Take the Guesswork Out of Scaling VDI
Start right with Nimble’s data reduction to contain runaway VDI costs. As needs grow, confidently scale performance and capacity to a tailored VDI fit with InfoSight’s predictive analytics.
Deduplication and compression ensures a cost-effective ‘right-sized’ deployment
Scale from small to large deployments seamlessly and non-disruptively
Leverage InfoSight VDI analysis and sizing at the click of a button for a tailored VDI fit
Simplify Operations
Other storage systems require separate silos for VDI, user data, and data protection. Nimble’s unified flash fabric provides a single cost-effective platform that can handle it all, dramatically reducing management overhead.
Run VDI desktops on the all-flash array for absolute performance, and user data on an adaptive flash array – all managed as one
Protect golden images and user data with efficient snapshots and replication at a third of the cost
Deploy SmartStack turn-key VDI from small to large scale, that is simple to deploy and manage
Solutions:
Deliver a superior VDI user experience
Boot storms demand faster reads; steady state and maintenance operations call for rapid writes. Nimble’s CASL™ architecture delivers both, leveraging flash for quicker reads, and a sequential hard-disk layout for speedier writes.
Take the guesswork out of scaling VDI
Nimble arrays are designed to scale performance and capacity independently so organizations buy only the resources they need. And InfoSight™ can predict capacity and help eliminate performance bottlenecks — all at the click of a button.
Simplify management
Traditional storage requires separate silos for VDI, user data, and business-critical applications. Nimble consolidates them onto a single array, dramatically reducing management overhead.
Accelerate VDI deployments with turnkey solutions
VDI deployments are challenging, requiring the tight integration of storage, network, compute, and virtualization. Nimble's SmartStack™ for VDI uses best-of-breed technology from Cisco, VMware and Citrix for quick and effective deployments.
Guarantee 24/7 desktop availability even in the case of disaster
Nimble's five-9s system uptime means VDI desktops are always available; efficient snapshot replication enables access even during disasters.
Desktop Virtualization Solutions with VMware:
HPE Nimble Storage and VMware closely partner to provide comprehensive desktop virtualization (VDI) solutions. HPE Nimble Storage arrays provide high performance and efficient capacity for VMware Horizon View, resulting in a better end-user experience and cost-effective deployments.
HPE Nimble Storage arrays deliver absolute performance and efficient capacity for VMware Horizon View, resulting in a better end-user experience and cost-effective deployments.
Key Benefits
- Deliver a consistent high-performance user experience with flash
- Scale from small to large deployments seamlessly and non-disruptively
- Eliminate silos for VDI, user data, and data protection with the HPE Nimble Storage Unified Flash Fabric
- Leverage Nimble SmartStack™ reference architectures to speed deployments
HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack Solutions with VMware
HPE Nimble Storage provides the right storage foundation for tested, pre-validated VDI reference architectures with VMware.
- SmartStack for Desktop Virtualization
- SmartStack for Desktop and Server Virtualization
- SmartStack for ROBO Desktop Virtualization
VDI Storage for Branch Offices, Mobile Users, and BYOD
HPE Nimble Storage is supported in VMware View™ Mobile Secure Desktop (MSD) and Branch Office Desktop (BOD) architectures. This helps IT support remote users, branch offices, and the growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend by delivering a unique combination of storage performance and cost-effective capacity.
Desktop Virtualization Solutions with Citrix:
HPE Nimble Storage arrays deliver absolute performance and efficient capacity for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, resulting in a better end-user experience and cost-effective deployments.
Key Benefits
- Deliver a consistent high-performance user experience cost-effectively
- Scale from small to large deployments seamlessly and non-disruptively
- Eliminate silos for VDI, user data, and data protection with the HPE Nimble Storage Unified Flash Fabric
- Leverage Nimble SmartStack™ reference architectures to speed deployments
Citrix XenDesktop
HPE Nimble Storage arrays provide a high-performance end-user experience for Citrix XenDesktop for both pooled (using MCS) and streamed desktops (using PVS), while also providing cost-effective capacity.
Citrix XenApp
For hosted shared desktops with XenApp, HPE Nimble Storage arrays deliver the performance and scalability needed for high user density deployments.
HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack Solutions with Citrix
HPE Nimble Storage provides the right storage foundation for tested, pre-validated VDI reference architectures with Citrix.
