Storage For VDI Environments - Planning and Considerations

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (also known as VDI) is a growing trend among companies in an effort to reduce costs and administrative overhead while improving reliability and security of users desktops. Successful implementations require several factors, including reasonable costs and good performance from desktop users’ perspective. Storage is often cited as the item most often responsible for performance success or failures, and also has the largest impact on total costs. Achieving good cost - performance levels requires a storage architecture optimized for VDI. The issues relating to storage can be categorized into three areas: storage capacity, storage performance requirements, and administrative changes.

This paper examines the issues IT architects and administrators should consider before embarking on a VDI implementation. 

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