Cut VDI CAPEX Costs up to 75%

Even though VDI can bring significant operational benefits to both the business and IT organization, the capital cost of implementing VDI can present an obstacle towards adoption.  The major expense of VDI is not software or server hardware, but storage.  With as much as 80% of the cost of implementing a conventional VDI environment going to the storage infrastructure needed to support it.

Reduce Storage Throughput Requirements

Conventional SAN/NAS storage systems can only deliver the data throughput (IOPS) needed to support VDI by increasing the number of storage drives and controllers well beyond that needed to deliver the required disk space.  Consequently, the cost of VDI storage per desktop to achieve the equivalent performance of a physical PC can be $1,000 or more per desktop.

With Atlantis ILIO, virtual desktops use storage efficiently by consolidating duplicate information contained in virtual desktop images in real-time before they hit storage. This has the combined benefit of dramatically reducing storage capacity and storage throughput required by up to 90%. By reducing data center storage and supporting infrastructure requirements and increasing the number of desktops per server, Atlantis ILIO can reduce VDI CAPEX by up to 75%.

Increase Storage Density: Virtual Desktops per Disk

The Microsoft Windows operating system generate high IOPS loads at all times, especially during startup, user login and antivirus scanning, which a VDI environment is serviced by shared SAN/NAS storage. When there are too many virtual desktops per physical storage disk, the IOPS available per virtual desktop drops and performance degrades. Because the Windows operating system generates so many IOPS a typical SAN/NAS storage system, can only handle a few Windows 7 desktop workloads per disk. IT organizations must normally buy many more storage disks and controllers than would be required for VDI based on storage capacity requirements alone to achieve the equivalent performance of a physical PC. This can increase the cost of VDI storage per desktop to $1,000 or more per desktop. Atlantis ILIO increases the number of virtual desktops that can be run per disk as much as 10 times by intelligently optimizing virtual desktop IO traffic.

Reduce Storage Capacity Requirements

Atlantis ILIO consolidates the storage of duplicate information contained in virtual desktop images by eliminating duplicate operating system, application and data with Atlantis ILIO inline deduplication technology. The result is a decrease in the amount of disk storage capacity required for virtual desktops by as much as 95%. For example, with a 1,000 user VDI deployment consuming 30GB of storage per desktop, Atlantis ILIO can reduce the physical storage requirements from 30 TB to 1.5 TB.

Increase Storage Choices

In additional to reducing storage capacity and increasing the number of virtual desktops per disk, Atlantis ILIO makes it possible to use less expensive storage options. Atlantis ILIO offloads IO traffic from storage, optimizes IO to make storage more efficient and provides a NFS front-end, giving IT organizations the option to use local disk (SATA, SAS, SSD), NAS or SAN.