Early adopters of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) that relied on hard disk drives (HDDs) were disappointed by the lack of performance of the solution: Response times suffered because of the unique nature of the I/O demand that VDI places upon the storage subsystem. Scaling the infrastructure meant adding expensive, yet inefficient, tier-one storage to handle the additional I/Os, even if capacity were not an issue. Management of the infrastructure sprawl became difficult. Unexpected costs diminished promised ROI. VDI environments help... [More]

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