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Solution Brief
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Without Compromise OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UC Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a top initiative for many IT organizations. And for good reason: VDI holds out the promise of a flexible, mobile computing experience for end users, and consolidated management for IT.
both in terms of CapEx, with a significant upfront investment required to start a deployment, especially in the area of storage; and in terms of OpEx, because of the complexity and overhead involved in managing it.
Too often, however, VDI deployments are plagued by sluggish and unpredictable desktop performance and higher than expected costs. Adopting organizations have been forced to compromise among competing goals of solution performance, resilience and costs.
3. Difficulty scaling. As your business grows and new users are added, scaling can be difficult because traditional infrastructure scales in silos and often in large, expensive increments.
SimpliVity’s market-leading hyperconverged infrastructure platform running on Cisco UCS C240 servers delivers the best of both worlds for VDI: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities. It delivers the end user experience and performance you need, without sacrificing resiliency or budgets. Together, SimpliVity and Cisco provide:
4. Inadequate data protection and resiliency. When it comes to data protection and redundancy, VDI is often regarded as a second-class citizen, due to cost concerns and bandwidth limitations. That can leave critical end user data unprotected, and the organization vulnerable to outages and unplanned downtime.
• Independently validated, unmatched VDI performance for a superb end user experience.
Why SimpliVity OmniStack with Cisco UCS for VDI?
• Highest density of desktops per node in the hyperconverged infrastructure category.
SimpliVity’s market-leading hyperconverged infrastructure platform running on best of breed Cisco UCS servers is the ideal solution for addressing the challenges of VDI environments and initiatives.
• Low cost of entry with the ability scale in affordable increments—from pilot to production. • Deployment of full-clone desktops with the same data efficiency as linked clones. • Enterprise-class data protection and resiliency.
Top Challenges of Deploying VDI on Legacy Infrastructure 1. Failed user acceptance. The biggest threat to a successful VDI deployment is a rejection by end users. When this happens, the culprit is invariably performance, in terms of latency, uptime, and responsiveness—especially during peak demand periods such as boot storms and login storms. An inability to deliver a great end user experience—at all times—will threaten the viability of any VDI deployment. 2. High cost and complexity. As organizations set out to deliver performance, they are met by the next challenge: cost. Traditional VDI infrastructure is costly Page 1 of 2
1. Independently-validated, unmatched VDI performance for a superb end user experience. SimpliVity’s solution easily offers peak performance at very high desktop density and eliminates VDI login storms by delivering 1,000 logins in 1,000 seconds—nearly 3x faster than the standard Login VSI benchmark provisioning speed and unparalleled in the hyperconvergence category. SimpliVity OmniStack hyperconverged infrastructure and its revolutionary OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform deliver unmatched performance by reducing IOPS and optimized storage and bandwidth capacity. 2. Low cost of entry with ability to easily scale from pilot to production. SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure natively combines all infrastructure and services “below the hypervisor” in a single device. It delivers scalability via modular 2U Cisco UCS servers. Two or more instances of OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS deployed within and across data centers form a Federation, providing a massively-
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scalable pool of shared resources. With SimpliVity systems deployed as linear, affordable building blocks, there is no need to over-provision in anticipation of future growth—you can scale as needed, when needed. 3. More desktops on less hardware. SimpliVity delivers more virtual desktops on less hardware, with the highest density of desktop workloads in the hyperconverged infrastructure category at 250 per node, without sacrificing performance or availability. SimpliVity’s ability to virtualize data enables deployment of full-clone desktops with the same data efficiency as linked clones. With less hardware and less storage and bandwidth capacity required, SimpliVity lowers upfront costs and reduces operating expenditures when starting or scaling your VDI deployment. 4. Enterprise-class protection and resiliency. To ensure desktop operations continue uninterrupted, SimpliVity delivers out-of-the-box local failover that will withstand a node outage, and continue delivering high performance without a loss of desktops. SimpliVity’s built-in data protection provides backup, replication, and granular restore capabilities for the entire virtual desktop infrastructure, with no additional license fees.
Customer Success Stories The National University of Namibia (UNAM) refreshed its entire legacy infrastructure with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure. UNAM’s IT initiative was based on VDI requirements to replace their physical desktops. UNAM realized the value of SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure within one week of deployment, along with a 75% increase in performance, VDI functionality, and native data protection. Business Services provider, High Cotton, leverages SimpliVity to run 100% of their mission-critical applications, including VMware View VDI for task workers. Every VM is backed up in 15 minutes and protected across two sites about 700 miles apart. Restores are equally fast.
“The SimpliVity product is a dream come true for a small business that is growing. It has built-in backup and deduplication. If I need storage or processing power, I just add another node.” – Jeff Byers, IT Director at High Cotton
St. John’s Riverside Hospital serves over 100,000 patient visits per year and hosts its mission critical healthcare applications on SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure, including VDI for 1200 healthcare end points.
“The best thing that we noted was the fact that nobody noted anything. The implementation was so seamless, everything just fit like a dream.” – Nelson Carreira, Director of Servers and Desktops St. John’s Riverside Hospital
To read more, view SimpliVity’s Customer Testimonials.
Solution Summary SimpliVity’s OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS C240 delivers the best of both worlds for VDI: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities, with the performance, scale, savings, and protection needed to ensure a successful VDI deployment. With SimpliVity and Cisco, organizations can realize the benefits of VDI, and deliver a superb end user experience without compromise.
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