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COMMON PITFALLSOF VDI PROJECTS
Learn How You Can Avoid These Pitfalls
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Why Move to VirtualDesktop Infrastructure (VDI)?VDI delivers well-documented benefits—but only if you can avoid the pitfalls.
Typical gains of VDI with VMware HorizonTM:
Source for statistics: 1 IDC, “Measuring the Business Value of VMware View,” December 2013.
305%
in ROI over five years
in labor cost per userper year vs. traditional PCs
per supported end user realized from lower device and IT support costs
8
$665 58%
reduction
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Eight Common Pitfalls of VDI Projects
Not involving users
Putting together the wrong team
The risk: A failure to understand user requirements leads to no buy-in from users.
The risk: Limited expertise leads to improperly designed desktop and application environments.
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Defining VDI use cases improperly The risk: Use cases that lack realistic performance requirements.
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Not conducting a pre-assessment The risk: A failure to understand workloads and their technical requirements.
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5Not properly optimizing thedesktop image
Not understanding impacts to the performance of other systems
The risk: Failure to meet user expectations for the desktop experience.
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Not developing an applicationdeployment strategyThe risk: Confusion over how to deploy, update, and manage applications.
Skipping or mismanaging thepilot project The risk: Improperly designed desktop and application environments.
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The risk: Performance bottlenecks stemming from bandwidth, storage, and I/O issues.
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5
annual savings
increase