The (significant) benefits software-defined storage brings Citrix VDI Deployments
If you have ever worked on a VDI project, chances are pretty good you one or more problems occurred in terms of performance, scalability, availability, storage and data management and costs. And if you did, chances are just as good, it was your memory that helped or caused these problems.
After all, traditional (hardware-based) storage systems are not "aware application" are not capable of the performance requirements of different workloads to discriminate linear, to ensure that executes each application at an optimum level, nor are they designed scale while improving performance, impede the much larger VDI installations.
Many of these systems are based on outdated storage architectures, bring with it the data between volumes or arrays replicating high availability (HA) of critical databases, server and desktop operating system images, user profiles and user data to provide. Such HA implementations typically well as additional storage and data management costs lead to inefficient memory usage.
Of course, all of the costs may result slightly above in higher VDI deployment.
In an effort to mitigate or "memory" issues, such as preventing described above, the running over ~~ POS = TRUNC ~~ POS = HEADCOMP of other mission-critical workloads, many companies have gone so far, VDI provide a separate "island" further management costs and increase the complexity.
Briefly, proprietary, hardware-based storage solutions that have stood for available what seems like forever, not all problems afflicting have VDI users solved, but they contributed to them.
So who (or what) can help you to solve, or even better, to avoid these problems?
As a longstanding Citrix Ready partner, Sanbolic software platform has helped to overcome hundreds of Citrix VDI clients, the problems that have been hindering VDI installations since its advent. Since its inception nearly 15 years ago Sanbolic to build storage solutions (with industry-standard components) with intelligence (advanced storage and data management services) has the advantages announced software to be decoupled from the hardware, which allows companies to their own "customized" solely by software that is 100% agnostic to the underlying infrastructure.
such software should seamlessly allow scale-out infrastructure and workloads, intelligent hardware use secured power levels to provide, where necessary, provide Tier 1 storage capabilities over a wide range of storage devices (Flash, SSD, improve HDD), the overall system fault tolerance, and greatly simplify data management and data protection measures. In addition, the software should be capable of these same capabilities to provide customers, regardless of whether they. The provision of VDI in a single data center or across multi-data center
Although Sanbolic hugged long and advocated the idea of delivery enterprise-class storage and data management capabilities and services through software, has recently this concept as "software-defined storage" and a consensus been marked reached within the storage industry to refer the concept of the label, if the decoupling of memory describe and data management of hardware components. And while the term software-defined storage or SDS may be short, is still relatively new to many outside the storage industry, its advantages (to manage the elimination of the need for storage and data with proprietary interfaces on a per array basis and eliminating per-feature licensing fees) will be implemented quickly, as to the technology seen rapid adoption, continue by organizations of all sizes.
For those new SDS, there are two basic approaches, with most providers of design and development of solutions based on an approach or the other. The following descriptions explain the premise behind each approach:
The first approach includes all storage and data management move from the borders (housing) of a hardware-based storage system to the host systems that actually use the memory. The primary advantages of this approach include the central management and scale-out infrastructures and workloads in storage environments from a variety of storage media (Flash, SSD, HDD), and the elimination of pay-per-feature licensing models that customers need to acquire companies - class features (ie snapshots, QoS, storage migration, mirroring, replication, tiering, deduplication, etc.) that are no longer optional considered in today's enterprise environments.
The first approach to SDS can be extremely helpful for organizations that their existing storage infrastructures to increase to improve operational efficiency and reduce management costs and complexity, while investments in their legacy storage systems continue to use.
The second approach involves removing the additional "layers" a storage infrastructure, including storage array, cables and switch fabrics and enables customers 'customized' storage systems using industry-standard computing and storage components with intelligence asked about the software available to build. Consolidating compute and storage resources within x86 servers housing and centralize the provision of storage and data services via the resulting converged infrastructure reduces management costs and complexity, while the high investment and operating costs when using external (SAN) formed storage systems, to avoid , In addition, the ability to create a distributed RAID on systems that converged solution that provides the level of fault tolerance for users of traditional storage arrays are used to it.
The main advantages granted by the second approach include centralized management and scale-out infrastructures and workloads in storage environments from a variety of storage media is and significantly lower TCO through the hardware components used goods. Organizations to build the new storage environments that offer high performance, dynamic scale-out, high availability, simplified storage and data management and enterprise-class storage and data services at a much lower cost than traditional, high-end storage array will probably want this approach SDS.
While the number of storage vendors (old and new) claiming their products to consider the benefits offer to continue to grow by SDS almost daily, Sanbolic the scale-out platform that has been used in Citrix VDI (XenDesktop and XenApp) environments worldwide for many years, has always been a purely software-based solution, which provides customers the flexibility to achieve either or both approaches for SDS to unified management and scale out their virtual desktop infrastructures provides (and other workloads) in heterogeneous storage environments.
A true SDS solution that is 100% agnostic underlying hardware, provides the Sanbolic platform advanced data services and tier1 storage capabilities (across multiple storage levels), the dynamically changing business requirements can be applied, while to ensure the most efficient use of customers valuable storage resources. SLAs that scale the performance of mission-critical workloads, seamless data migration, intelligent data placement (tiering), snapshots, mirroring and replication, automated storage and data management and the ability to guarantee thousands of nodes and exabytes capacity (without downtime) are all on the platform included no additional cost .
mentioned addition to the above advantages, the unique distributed the Sanbolic Platform (shared) memory architecture that provides simultaneous multiple servers read and write access to logical volumes include a Citrix VDI client:
* Simplified desktop and server image management and maintenance (PVS and MCS)
* Optimal memory usage
* Improved virtual desktop machine performance (XenDesktops and XenApp server)
* Dynamic scale-out
* High availability of desktop (infrastructure server and / or storage capacity on-demand add) and server images, databases and user profiles
* ability , XenDesktop and XenApp deployments to span multiple data centers in active / active mode for load balancing and DR
in summary, SDS ushering in a new era for storage. As a provider of next-generation scale-out architectures for the modern data center and one of the first companies to offer a software-based SDS solution delivers Sanbolic was the company the advantages of SDS for years. For our Citrix VDI customers, this has to be understood clearly lower TCO, which has led to the greatest return on their investments in desktop virtualization.
Sanbolic is a Citrix Ready partner. found more information about the product at the Xchange marketplace
Sanbolic scale-out platform is checked and to be compatible with Citrix products:
XenApp 7.5, 5.0 32-bit
XenDesktop 7.5, 7.0, 5.6, 4.0
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