Using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, IT administrators host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in their data center while offering end users a full desktop experience that can be accessed anytime and anywhere. Today's business and technology climate has created a new set of desktop management problems such as ensuring data security and privacy within outsourcing and off shoring arrangements and with remote workers as well as ensuring desktop standardization, security and compliance. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance is a technology alliance of hardware, software and service providers for building joint virtual desktop offerings.ĭesktops are the most underutilized and most difficult to manage IT asset in the enterprise. PALO ALTO, Calif., ApVMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization software for industry-standard systems, today announced the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance. Read: VDI vs.VMware Announces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance New Alliance Formed to Speed Adoption and Deployment of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Perform a Pilot Test: Most virtualization providers offer testing tools that you can use to run a test VDI deployment beforehand it’s important to do so to make sure you’ve provisioned your resources correctly.Understand Your End-Users’ Needs: Do your users need to be able to customize their desktops, or are they task workers who can work from a generic desktop? (In other words, is your organization better suited to a persistent or nonpersistent VDI setup?) What are your users’ performance requirements? You’ll need to provision your setup differently for users who use graphics-intensive applications versus those who just need access to the internet or to one or two simple applications.Avoid Underprovisioning: Perform capacity planning in advance using a performance monitoring tool to understand the resources each virtual desktop consumes and to make sure you know your overall resource consumption needs.Prepare Your Network: Since VDI performance is so closely linked to network performance, it’s important to know peak usage times and anticipate demand spikes to ensure sufficient network capacity.In addition to infrastructure considerations, there are a number of best practices to follow when implementing VDI: On the other hand, implementing HCI for VDI is probably not necessary (and would be overly expensive) for organizations that require less than 100 virtual desktops. When planning for VDI deployment, larger enterprises should consider implementing it in an HCI environment, as HCI’s scalability and high performance are a natural fit for VDI’s resource needs.
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