Garrett: Hi, I'm Garrett Clark, and I'm the Principal Technical Marketing Engineer here
at SolidFire, and I'm here to talk to you about the benefits of running your VDI solution
with VMware Horizon View and SolidFire.
To give a little background on SolidFire, SolidFire is in all-SSD scale-out storage
solution with industry-leading quality of service.
SolidFire's quality of service enables you to provision performance completely independent
of capacity, and that's very valuable for things in VDI like perhaps replica volume
that requires a very small amount of capacity yet an extremely high amount of performance.
In addition, SolidFire is the only storage array on the market today with 100% inline
deduplication, compression and thin provisioning.
Finally, SolidFire has Double Helix data protection that enables enterprise ready high-availability
for your mission-critical VDI deployment.
So let's talk about some of the key benefits of running SolidFire with VMware View.
First, is adaptable infrastructure in both performance and capacity.
A typical VDI workload during the course of a day looks something similar to this where
you have the boot storm in the morning, steady state during the middle of the day and virus
scans and perhaps patching and those types of activities during the night.
SolidFire can control the performance on all of these cycles during the day with a min,
max and burst functionality.
And these can be dynamically changed on the fly.
For example, if your boot storm during the beginning of the day is much more intense
than anticipated, SolidFire can automatically adjust to accommodate the new need.
Secondly, SolidFire enables capacity adaptability within a VDI deployment.
Take for example, you need to start out [00:02:00] with the linked clones type of a deployment,
but then from their requirements changed and new desktops need to be full clones.
Due to SolidFire's inline data reduction technologies, you can change your requirements and go to
full clones without additional capacity planning needed.
Next, SolidFire will eliminate the storage sprawl within a data center.
Traditional storage best practices are for you to use a dedicated storage array for each
individual VDI deployment.
With SolidFire, you can put your VDI deployment on our storage array and have additional things
on it, like perhaps a database or an application or perhaps even an additional VDI deployment.
Also SolidFire has industry-leading density at 1000 or more desktops in a single 1U.
To put that in perspective, with this penny here, I can fit 35 desktops in the thickness
of this.
Next, SolidFire enables granular scaling.
As your requirements change and perhaps you need more desktops, you can add additional
1U nodes to a SolidFire system.
In doing so, data will automatically be redistributed and load balance throughout the system.
And on top of that, there is no management overhead or planning required.
And most importantly, this requires zero downtime.
Next, through our VAAI integrations and vCenter plug-in, SolidFire enables simplified administration
of your VDI deployment.
You can rapidly provision storage very quickly, provision each one of the individual desktops,
and then boot up thousands of desktops in only a matter of a few minutes.
Most importantly, SolidFire received a View Planner score of 0.52, which is industry-leading.
This will lead to not only happier VDI [00:04:00] users but also happier administrators.
Finally, all of these benefits wouldn't be very interesting in the event SolidFire wasn't
economical.
Due to our density, SolidFire has extremely good economics with regards to rack space,
power and cooling.
And finally for storage in your VDI deployment, SolidFire costs less than $50 per desktop.
For more information, contact VMware.com or SolidFire.com/VDI and thanks for watching.