Break Down the Barriers to VDI With Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Arrays

Storage is the biggest barrier to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) adoption, with most customers complaining that VDI storage is difficult to manage and control, expensive, and too complex and variable. To adopt VDI successfully, companies must minimize up-front capital costs as well as ongoing expense of VDI storage to realize high return on investment (ROI).

The Taneja Group, a technology research and analysis firm, recommends Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series XVS hybrid arrays as the solution to challenges in VDI adoption. Built on patented, peer storage architecture and packed in an all-inclusive model at an affordable price, the EqualLogic PS Series delivers:

• Automated data protection ― includes auto-replication, instant volume restore, multivolume writeable snapshots and volume cloning
• Cost-efficient scale-up and scale-out ― shares resources, redistributes workloads and optimizes application performance
• Lower capacity requirements and costs ― scales deployments to minimize the cost of VDI storage
• Simplified storage provisioning, monitoring and management ― provisions all storage resources to meet evolving application needs without downtime
• Comprehensive integration with VMware® platforms, tools and application programming interfaces (APIs) ― leverages VMware vSphere™ and VMware vStorage application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide more efficient and integrated data services
• Intelligent data placement for multitiered workloads ― enables IT administrators to leverage high-performance serial attached SCSI (SAS) arrays for VDI, for example, while leveraging economical serial ATA (SATA) disks for less performance-sensitive applications; delivers tiered storage in a single array