New EMC Solution for Citrix XenDesktop Supports Thousands of Virtual Desktops
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New EMC Solution for Citrix XenDesktop Supports Thousands of Virtual
Desktops
EMC VNX, EMC Flash and FAST Suite Dramatically Reduce Time and Costs
CITRIX SYNERGY, San Francisco – May 25, 2011 – EMC Corporation
(NYSE: EMC) today announced a new EMC Proven™ solution for Citrix
XenDesktop® to accelerate the adoption of virtual desktop
infrastructures and realization of the associated benefits. The robust,
flexible and cost-effective solution built on EMC VNX™ unified storage
(http://www.emc.com/products/series/vnx-series.htm) systems delivers
predictable high performance and high availability for up to 1,000
virtual desktops and is easily expandable. The solution utilizes a
building-block approach which can then scale to thousands of virtual
desktops.
“Today’s announcement showcases the tangible benefits associated
with implementing EMC’s advanced unified storage systems and
associated technologies in a virtual desktop implementation,” said
Eric Herzog, EMC’s Vice President, Product Marketing and Management,
Unified Storage Division. “Customers can now quickly, efficiently and
cost-effectively implement and scale their virtual desktop environment
while taking advantage of trademark EMC reliability, availability,
multi-protocol support, disaster recovery features, replication and
snapshot technology, and hardened security.”
EMC VNX unified storage systems with advanced flash technology provide
customers flexibility, choice and control as they support virtual
desktop provisioning for Citrix XenDesktop. Customers can optimize and
manage their infrastructure with the assurance that EMC storage will
perform and scale to meet their specific needs. EMC FAST Cache
technology delivers the IOPS required to exceed a customer’s virtual
desktop SLAs and ensures maximum performance to easily scale without
incurring the power, space and acquisition costs associated with a large
storage array.
EMC FAST Suite which includes EMC FAST VP technology and EMC FAST Cache
enables 1,000 virtual desktops to power on, achieve a steady state and
register with the XenDesktop controllers within eight minutes. At peak
load and with high IOPS being generated by the Boot Storm, the EMC VNX
system requires only 20 SAS drives and two flash drives in comparison to
the 90-100 (nearly five times more) SAS drives required by an equivalent
competitive configuration without flash drives to match this
performance.
“Customers are grappling with the costs and complexities associated
with infrastructure implementation in a virtual desktop environment,”
said John Fanelli, Vice President of Product Marketing, Enterprise
Desktops and Applications at Citrix. “To meet customer needs, Citrix
and EMC have created tight integration between VNX unified storage
systems and XenDesktop which enables a simple and cost-effective storage
solution that meets high performance requirements of the most demanding
service level agreements for XenDesktop customers.”
Implementing and configuring a complete virtual desktop infrastructure
requires expertise in desktop deployment and migrations, application
virtualization, security, system management and storage design. The
powerful combination of EMC Global Services (
http://www.emc.com/services/index.htm ) expertise – including
consulting and implementation – and EMC’s industry-leading
technology for Citrix XenDesktop 5 environments enables customers to
achieve business agility, application flexibility and infrastructure
efficiency.
The EMC solution for Citrix XenDesktop will be demonstrated in booth
#624 at Citrix Synergy, May 24-27 in San Francisco. For further
information and to view the associated whitepaper, please click here
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h8243-virtualdesktop-vnx-citrix-xendesktop5-vsphere-ra.pdf).
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