Best Practices for Deploying ioMemory in VDI Environments

July 23, 2012

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Fusion Powered VDI servers deliver uncompromised I/O to support a guaranteed number of users at a far lower cost than centralized storage.

The benefits of Fusion-io for VDI are significant, and include the following:

  • More virtual desktops per virtual server
  • High performance even during peak loads
  • Faster clone generation
  • Low latency for faster end user desktop experiences
  • Reduced reliance on expensive, complex external storage
  • Lower overall cost per desktop

VMware View VDI environments are ideal for ioMemory. The figure below illustrates a Fusion Powered VDI architecture.

Figure 1. Example ioMemory and VMware View VDI architecture

Fusion’s Technical Guide 209 – Deploying ioMemory in VMware Environments provides information on how to use ioMemory, VMware View 5.x, and ESXi 5 in VDI configurations to increase desktop performance and density, while lowering costs. For example, you can provision 100 or more virtual desktop sessions per server, with the ability to scale overall installation nearly linearly by adding more servers — while minimizing external storage costs.

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TechValidated: Fusion-io Enhances Server Virtualization

June 26, 2012

More than ever, companies all over the world are virtualizing their servers to battle server sprawl, improve productivity and maximize system resources. In doing so, many of these companies have discovered that implementing Fusion ioMemory boosts the efficiency of virtualized systems with astounding results. Below are TechValidate survey results displaying just how much improvement companies have experienced with Fusion Powered server virtualization solutions.

Performance Improvement: In this survey, 95 percent of IT organizations using server virtualization achieved three to five times or more performance improvement in application throughput when using ioMemory.

Latency: In addition, 77 percent of companies using server virtualization reported that they decreased average latency by 50 to 74 percent or more by deploying one Fusion ioDrive.

More Virtualized Servers Per Card: One customer at a small business computer software company reported achieving 10 virtualized servers per card. “Fusion offered exactly what we needed — appearance as a block level device to the host OS while providing dramatically faster I/O calls, allowing us to fully virtualize 10 servers per card.”

To see complete TechValidate results, click here.


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