VDI
Flash and Containers? A Look at Docker Technology
The technology industry is abuzz about containers, but what's the storage angle? Biswapati Bhattacharjee looks at the role of flash in container I/O demands.
September 29, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Accelerating VDI Application Response Times: New HP Virtual SAN Solution
In my last blog post I talked about our VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) solution with our partner Lenovo, and new OLTP testing results. In this post, I would like to discuss some fantastic results we have achieved with a new Virtual SAN solution for VDI that we developed with our partner, HP. Indeed, this solution is […]
August 27, 2015 • 3 min read Data
VDI and its Deployment: Three Strategies
There are three distinct ways VDI is deployed: VDI–in-a-box, VDI in network storage and VDI in software-defined storage. Flash plays a key role in each deployment architecture, improving user experience, accelerating performance and reducing costs. Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares how.
June 16, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Affordable, High-Performance VDI – New Reference Architecture for VMware Virtual SAN
In recent months, VMware, SanDisk®, Dell, Avago and Brocade have worked together on VMware’s new, hypervisor-converged Software-Defined Storage platform (SDS), Virtual SAN, and validated a new all-flash VDI reference architecture (RA). The recent announcement of the solution brief can be found here and here. As the RA becomes public, I would like to take the opportunity […]
May 29, 2015 • 3 min read Data
The Evolution of VDI
Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure (VDI), is a way of accessing desktops running remotely in a data center by using a protocol. There are many vendors in this space providing various solutions. Two important areas where companies deliver different solutions in VDI are network and storage. In this blog post I would like to talk about the […]
April 30, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Swap To Host Cache – An Important Element Of Memory Over Commitment
With Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) disabled in over-committing memory in VMware environments, the “Swap to Host Cache” feature plays an important role in tackling server consolidation and memory hungry workloads.
February 26, 2015 • 3 min read Data
New Ways to Configure VMware All-Flash VSAN 6.0
There are many advantages to using SSDs for the capacity tier in VSAN, specifically with Enterprise-grade SSDs reaching 4TB and beyond and in VSAN 6.0 one will be able to configure a capacity tier using flash drives directly from vCenter web client UI. However, for those using VSAN 1.0 one needs to configure the SSD […]
February 12, 2015 • 6 min read Data
1200 Virtual Desktops in 3-node All-Flash Virtual SAN (VSAN)
As 2015 approaches, I wanted to conclude my last blog of this year by discussing our latest all-flash Virtual SAN (VSAN) testing. and to share some of our plans for next year for VSAN and other areas of virtualization. Before getting into the results of our latest testing, I want to point to several of […]
December 11, 2014 • 4 min read Data