This is an interesting topic that I came across few times but more recently is finding its way into organizations due to lower SLC SSD acquisition cost. Let’s put the discussion in context… Architects should embrace different deployment approaches that properly fit the intended use case. That’s a foundational design principle – use case always …
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There are so many disruptive VMware technologies in the VDI space that sometimes is hard to keep up with them all. I am looking forward to few of them, such as the VMware Distributed Storage and Space-Efficient Sparse Virtual Disks. At same pace the storage industry is being transformed and now most storage solutions on …
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In my previous article EMC FAST Cache effectiveness with VDI I focused on FAST Cache benefits for VDI deployments. The tests I completed also generated a huge quantity of data that is tremendously valuable for better sizing of VDI environments. I previously have discussed (here) how IOs suffer severe split between replica, linked clone and …
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How much are you paying for your fast storage? Recently I have seen more and more people from the blogosphere talking about replacing plate spin hard drives with Solid State Drives (SSD) on laptops, desktops and even servers. I have gone through the same path. My homelab run its system’s primary partition on a SSD …
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I have been aiming to buy a new homelab for a long time but my commitments with a new house didn’t let me afford the type of hardware I would like to buy. On the other hand I really needed some good equipment for my VCDX studies, Beta tests and simulations. So I went to …
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Lately I have been questioning myself whether VDI really need expensive enterprise storage arrays (SAN) to run VDI environments. The points I raise here may not apply to all organizations but certainly there are aspects to be observed. Assuming User Profiles are hosted in a file server, why couldn’t virtual desktops run from the server …
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