Weathering VDI I/O Storms
Welcome to virtual reality! Now that virtualization is real, it’s time for us to talk about the reality behind its application. We are all excited about how virtualization is changing the IT world – providing better resource utilization, cost reductions, faster provisioning, automation, higher availability, and better mobility. It all sounds good – no it actually sounds great – and the technology is completely transforming the way we design data centers and define business processes. Now that we’ve seen the benefits that server virtualization brought to the table, the next logical application is desktop virtualization. The concept is bringing a new approach to enterprise-wide desktop deployments that is aimed at providing a better end-user and administrator experience than physical desktops: lowering the cost of acquisition and management while offering a highly scalable, easy to deploy, and fully protected desktop environment. Nevertheless, this consolidation raises new challenges in terms of compute resource allocation and granular data protection and recovery processes – this is where virtual reality starts.
