Fixing a VDI implementation

that’s hit the wall

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• Pulling off a successful VDI implementation is no mean feat.

Most fail the first time around, often because the storage on

the back-end is not designed to handle the load when

thousands of users log in. Unacceptable user performance

and cost overruns will cause virtual desktop infrastructure

projects to grind to a halt, with users demanding their old

laptops back.

• Taking a thoughtful approach to implementing VDI,

considering performance at every layer of the infrastructure,

especially storage, and being able to diagnose performance

issues quickly, is crucial to a VDI rollout. We’ll discuss this

and other important metrics and best practices for getting

VDI into production successfully.

Abstract:

Fixing a VDI implementation that’s hit the wall

• Introductions

• A message from Tegile

• Right and wrong reasons to do

VDI projects

• Reasons VDI projects fail

• Considerations

• Managing VDI over the long term

• Q & A

Agenda for today’s webinar

Today’s moderator and panelists

Barb Goldworm

President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS LLC

John Katsaros

Principal Analyst, Internet Research Group

Jim Bagley

Senior Analyst, SSG-NOW

Rob Commins

Vice President of Marketing, Tegile

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AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT

Tegile Arrays act differently for different use cases with no management intervention

END TO END EFFICIENCY

In-line de-duplication and compression save disk capacity and expand cache footprint

TIERLESS

PERFORMANCE Price performance is balanced without the

management and CPU burden of storage tiering

AGILITY PRICING PROGRAM

Have the peace of mind of owning your infrastructure with a low cost variable pricing model

Tegile’s Efficiency in VDI Environments

• In-Line SSD & HDD Data

Reduction

• Deduplication

• Compression

• Thin Provisioning

• Metadata Acceleration

lowers spindle count

6 Massive capacity, space, power and cooling savings

Right and wrong reasons to do VDI projects

Success with VDI is highly dependent on the

goals, objectives, and reasons for implementation.

What are the right and wrong reasons?

• Cost savings?

• TCO

• CapEx / OpEx

• ROI

• Consolidation vs. support costs

• Manageability

• Mobility / agility

• Which use cases / types of users

Right and wrong reasons to do VDI projects

What are the reasons VDI projects fail?

Early VDI projects failed due to unrealistic

expectations AND technology issues. What are the

reasons today?

• Wrong goals / objectives

• Storage costs & performance issues

• Image management challenges

• Synchronized behaviors

– Virus scans, boot storms, login storms, patch Tuesday

• Desktop vs. server workloads

• IOPS

• User experience issues

• Manageability

What are the reasons VDI projects fail?

Considerations

• Requirements

• Use cases and workloads

• Performance requirements

• Graphics requirements

• IOPS

• Infrastructure

• Processors & memory

• Storage architecture

• Image management

• Networking impact

• Related technologies (app virtualization, user virtualization)

What are the considerations for successful VDI

implementation?

Managing VDI over the long term

• The world of user computing is a fast changing environment

– VDI, hosted virtual applications, big data, BYOD, DaaS,

new devices & operating systems, mobile, tablets..

• How should I think about managing VDI over the long term?

• What can I do to prepare to keep up with user data growth?

• How can I prepare for changing regulatory compliance requirements?

• How can I build/manage an agile architecture?

• How should I plan for the future?

Managing VDI over the long term

Questions

Today’s moderator and panelists

Barb Goldworm

President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS LLC

John Katsaros

Principal Analyst, Internet Research Group

Jim Bagley

Senior Analyst, SSG-NOW

Rob Commins

Vice President of Marketing, Tegile

Thank you!