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Violin Memory is a registered trademark of Violin Memory, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions
Violin Memory, Inc. | 4555 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA | Tel: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1500 • Fax: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1543 | www.violin-‐memory.com
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Compelling Economics • Granular inline deduplication and compression keep storage costs in check.
• Storage as low as $60/desktop
• All Flash at the cost of disk
Easy to Scale • Rapidly provision new desktops
• Up to 5,000 desktops on the 7300 FSP
• Up to 20,000 desktops on the 7700 FSP
Simple Management • One storage GUI management for operational simplicity
• Automated infrastructure provisioning
Data Protection • Business Continuance with Violin’s Flash Storage Platform provides a wide variety of replication options to protect valuable data
Violin FSP Proven Storage on VMware® Horizon Virtual Desktops Violin Memory’s 7300 Flash Storage Platform™ is VMware Horizon Fast Track 2.0 Proven Storage Certified
Proven Storage Once you’ve decided to use virtual desktops, now you need to decide the best way to implement them. Storage is a major enabler of VDI, and you need to make sure you have the right storage platform, and configuration. Proven Storage solutions are designed to deliver a VDI implementation that meets your needs. These solutions are certified in the labs to determine a specific workload performance for VMware Horizon deployments. Scalability and performance are tested and certified using Login VSI, and industry standard workload-‐planning tool. Login VSI uses a rich set of commonly used applications that represent typical workloads such as word processing spreadsheets, web browsing, and more. The Violin Flash Storage Platforms are “VMware Ready” and “End User Computing” certified. Violin Memory is an elite partner in the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program and is VMware Ready as well as End User Computing Ready. Violin FSP for Horizon VDI implementations:
• Get more IOPS for your money
• Avoid over or under provisioning your storage capacity
• Increase the ease of use and deployment agility
• Obtain linear scalability
• Understand the true costs before you implement
Powerful VDI Storage Solution Violin provides consistent low latency based on its unique Flash Fabric Architecture™ delivers concurrent and parallel operations without the latency spikes found in SSD architectures. This allows a more heavily loaded array for maximum return on investment. The Violin Flash Storage Platform provides support for VDI functions with capabilities such as inline deduplication and compression to make VDI truly functional and economic. The FSP also provides a complete suite of enterprise data services that deliver the functions that today’s data center requires, including synchronous and asynchronous replication, LUN mirroring, clones, thin provisioning, Continuous Data Protection and more.
Solution Brief: Violin FSP Proven Storage on VMware Horizon Virtual Desktops
Violin Memory, Inc. | 4555 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA | Tel: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1500 • Fax: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1543 | www.violin-‐memory.com ©2015 Violin Memory, Inc. All rights reserved. These products and technologies are protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. Violin Memory is a registered trademark of Violin Memory, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions
VDI Economics VDI economics hang on two elements: cost of storage and the cost of management. The cost of storage from Violin is comprised of the effective storage capacity after data reduction features such as deduplication and compression. Industry experts estimate that data reduction for VDI should yield a 3-‐5:1 savings, or effective storage capacity. In addition, because Violin does not use expensive SSDs in our designs, we can pass the cost savings on to our customers. The combination of the two means your VDI budget goes farther with Violin.
Easy to Manage Another key element for VDI success is management. In today’s world, you need to provide a storage solution that can do more than one thing. VDI is just part of today’s data center workload. Other applications would include databases, transaction apps, email, payroll, etc. These applications may have different needs. Violin’s GUI means you don’t need a lot of different GUIS to manage your environment. It also means if you want to more carefully tailor the environment to the workload, Violin provides you the tools in a single pane of glass through our Symphony management.
Once you establish your VDI characteristics, you can easily replicate the LUN to as many VDI users as you like for hyper-‐efficient provisioning. You can create tiers of characteristics of the different classes of user. This means scaling to enterprise scope for VDI is no longer a heavy IT lift, it has been reduced to a low-‐effort task.
VDI Performance VDI is recognized as a performance demanding application subject to large IOPS swings at boot time and heavy write activity demanding consistent performance that Violin can provide. Traditional VDI based on spinning disk drives commonly suffers from insufficient performance. Because many users share a pool of virtual machines in the VDI application, applications that may have looked sequential, now appear random. Hard disk drive’s traditional strength of sequential performance is a mismatch for VDI. SSD-‐based arrays have latency spikes when performing maintenance that Violin’s Flash Fabric Architecture avoids. The Violin Flash Storage Platform has been designed from the ground up for consistent high performance and is the best storage options for your VMware Horizon implementations.
To learn more about how Violin Memory products, services, and solutions can help solve your business and IT challenges, contact your local representative or authorized reseller, visit www.violin-‐memory.com.