Increasing VDI Performance with Flash Storage

High Performance Virtual Desktops on Flash Storage

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) enables IT to easily provision, manage and secure enterprise desktop environments.  These environments, however, generate a random blend of I/O requests with periodic storms from boots, logins, and shutdowns.  Cornerstone has partnered with Kaminario K2 All-Flash storage to deliver high availability and high performance VDI environments at a very low price point.

K2 Benefits for Virtual Desktops:

Lowest Cost – Deployment and operating costs can be two-thirds of legacy storage arrays – after deduplication effective costs can be below $1 per GB or under $20/desktop

Simple to Deploy/Manage – Integrate with VMware and vCenter via plug-ins, or use the K2 GUI!

Latency/Throughput – Performance ensures virtual desktops remain responsive even under extreme peak workloads

No Single Point of Failure – Share nothing architecture ensures virtual desktops are available even if up to two SSDs fail at once in a single shelf

High-Efficiency RAID – An 87.5% efficiency dual-protected K-RAID

Non-Disruptive Everything – Upgrades and expansion are done online with no user downtime and no loss of virtual desktop responsiveness

Efficient Data Reduction – Native inline data deduplication reduces desktop capacity needs by 90%