questions about virtual desktop infrastructure

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Questions About Virtual Desktop InfrastructureAn informal discussion of VDI, where it is today, and where it might be headed

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Agenda• Who am I?

• What’s driving VDI adoption?

• What are some of VDI’s challenges?

• How can we address the challenges of VDI?

• Where is VDI heading?

• What else would you like to know?

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What’s driving VDI adoption?

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“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein

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Factors Pushing IT Orgs Toward VDI• Windows 7 migrations• Hardware refresh costs• Operational complexity

due to client patching, application deployments and updates, hardware “break and fix”

• Data confidentiality• Backing up data on

client systems

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What are some of VDI’s challenges?

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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

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Roadblocks Impeding VDI Deployments• Business justification

• Understanding user requirements

• Infrastructure costs– Endpoint cost and endpoint management– Back-end infrastructure expenses, especially

storage

• End user experience

• Operational challenges

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How can we address the challenges of VDI?

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“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ”

Albert Einstein

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Potential Solutions to VDI’s ChallengesChallenge Potential Solution

End-user experience • New display protocols like PCoIP and HDX• Hardware acceleration for display protocols

Compute density • Increasing CPU core count• Expanded memory functionality• Higher supported VM densities

Storage capacity and performance

• Space-conservative desktop clones• Intelligent storage tiering• Deduplication of user data

Virtual desktop protection

• Virtualization-optimized solutions such as vShield Endpoint

• A/V offloading to storage arrays

Virtual desktop image management

• Space-conservative desktop clones• Application virtualization like ThinApp or App-

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Where is VDI headed?

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“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. ”

Albert Einstein

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Future Directions for VDI• New form factors are

revitalizing interest in VDI

iPad photo courtesy of Apple, Inc.

• Client hypervisors could reshape how we view desktop virtualization

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What else would you like to know?

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