Server Virtualisation Benefits:

Increase virtual machine (VM) performance

Maximise number of VMs per physical server

Reduce the number of physical servers required for VM performance

Reduce number of Hard Disks required for VM IOPS performance

Increase SAN storage density utilising lower cost, high capacity drives

Accelerate existing or new SAN storage

Reduce I/O latency

Virtual Desktop Infrastrucure (VDI) Benefits:

Improve User desktop experiences

Best price performance per desktop

Eliminate ‘Boot storms’

Sustained high performance even during peak loads

Maximise number of virtual desktops per virtual server

Faster generation of ‘golden image’ clones

The problem with virtualisation and VDI ...

Virtualisation and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) have changed the way the IT world works today. They add so much value that it is unlikely to find a site that has not implemented, or plan to implement, some form of virtualisation.

The problem however, is the impact this has on storage, which in some cases can only be categorised as ‘mind blowing’.

Some forms of virtualisation are write intensive, whilst others are read, but it’s the same old story of being able to deliver the required IOPS (Inputs/Outputs Per Second)...

Virtualisation generally benefits from centralised storage, which usually means HDD based arrays delivering capacity and features, but unfortunately poor IOPS performance; they can’t help it ... it’s not a vendor thing, they are simply just mechanical devices!

Enter Solid State Storage, or SSDs, and just like we say to the SQL and Oracle users, 'if you had a magic wand, or an endless budget, you would simply stick your entire SAN on enterprise level SSD’s'. However, if you are like 99% of the world, then you will have neither.

The VS-fusion’s super-hybrid 'dual mode' was designed around 'know how' and 'best practises' to make your virtualisation solutions fly, and on a realistic budget by being ‘clever’.

Mode 1: Like many SSD solutions, the VS-fusion allows you to easily separate the 'usual suspects' within your data and migrate over to hyper fast solid state storage, which in itself can deliver dramatic positive impact to performance.

Mode 2: Mode 2: Unlike other solid state solutions, the VS-fusion uses solid state storage as a safe, permanent, frontend cache to standard arrays; meaning traditional, or your existing HDD (Hard Disk Drive)arrays, can still be used for the large capacity database - we simply make it work like an SSD and boost it like a rocket!’

Couple these two modes and you have all you need to accelerate your virtualised environments overnight; in some cases more than 100 times improvement!

Oh, and by the way - you don’t need to change or migrate any data!

So, given the above, the real question is not whether solid state storage would benefit you, it is ‘why would I choose to buy an SSD only solution when the VS-fusion’s dual mode functionality is no more expensive!? It’s like buying 20TB’s of SSD performance for the cost of 2TB!

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