We executed a Disaster Recovery Plan for our VDI!

I have been working with EUC solutions for a long time and for as long as I can remember, VDI solutions like Horizon and XenDesktop lacked a practical way to deliver DR.

In order to execute DR, administrators had to abstract components of the solution, virtualize applications, manually replicate golden images and make heavy use of non-persistent desktops.

Even like that, it is complex to have an effective DR plan that caters to business requirements, and for that reason, most IT organizations opt for having standby VDI deployments. This, of course, is an expensive solution as organizations need to keep paying for resources until the DR plan is triggered; and there could lengthy and cumbersome manual work.

Before we look into DR for VDI I would like to highlight what I have been saying for a while and that more and more customers are adopting scale-out technologies for VDI. However, instead of HCI that is inflexible in terms of performance and storage capacity ratios, these customers are adopting disaggregated architectures, like Datrium. Datrium is perfect for VDI as it also removes numerous challenges in deploying and scaling VDI deployments.

Here is a presentation that Simon Long and I did with ActualTech Media and where we demo DR for a full-stack VMware Horizon deployment. Enjoy!

This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net