Performance–not capacity–needs to be the primary focus when deploying virtual desktop environments.
The biggest challenge of deploying and scaling a virtual desktop infrastructure is the underlying storage performance. Period. In the VDI game, it is all about two words: WRITE IOs.
Why? Because 80-90% of VDI’s IO requirements are small, random WRITE IOPS. This is a nightmare scenario for traditional and cache based- storage vendors. Thus, performance–not capacity–needs to be the primary focus when deploying virtual desktop environments.
- Unlike traditional or tiered storage alternatives, WHIPTAIL’s storage solutions are specifically designed to optimize these IO-demanding VDI images. Random workloads – such as those in virtualized scenarios – are extremely challenging for traditional storage arrays. Not so for our completely flash-based array.
- A fully loaded, production-ready virtual desktop image requires between 20-40 IOPS to run at an acceptable level – well beyond the ability of hard-disk arrays or in-band hybrids.
- By creating a dramatically larger performance pool, with its unparalleled IOPS, WHIPTAIL eliminates underlying disk contention and alleviates 90% of VDI storage needs: hardware, power and rack space.
It was simply a matter of time and physics…
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