Accelerate and Scale VMware View deployments

VMware View provides IT organizations with the means to deliver rich, personalized virtual desktops as a managed service. Atlantis ILIO enables IT Organizations to accelerate and scale environments delivering View-based virtual desktops, regardless of the implementation architecture adopted.

VMware View offers support for both persistent and non-persistent virtual desktops, and supports application deployment through application virtualization using VMware ThinApp, modification of base images using View Composer with linked-clone desktop pools, or continuing to use whatever existing application provisioning techniques that is already in place.  Regardless of the type of virtual desktop chosen or the application provisioning technique used, all possible architectures rely heavily on the data center storage fabric to deliver acceptable performance.  Disk performance throughput (measured in IOPS) is critical to delivering a quality desktop experience with performance that is faster than a PC. In a conventional shared storage environment, providing the storage throughput required to support many hundreds or thousands of desktops as a low cost per desktop is a significant challenge.

Scaling VMware View Storage

Growing a conventional VMware View environment requires significant additional investment in storage. VMware View supports the use of linked-clones to provide personalized non-persistent virtual desktops based on a single master image.  This significantly reduces the storage requirements compared to persistent virtual desktops but does nothing to reduce the IOPS requirements across the storage infrastructure. Conventional SAN/NAS storage arrays can only deliver the data throughput needed to support VDI by increasing storage drives and controllers well beyond that needed to deliver the required disk space.  More virtual desktops require more storage; it is as simple as that.

With Atlantis ILIO, all duplicate data requests are served from files process by the Atlantis ILIO software virtual appliance and are never seen by the storage infrastructure, eliminating the need to spend more on storage controllers and their associated disks. As more desktops are added to Atlantis ILIO, inline deduplication of data becomes more and more efficient, speeding up virtual desktops and decreasing the amount of storage capacity consumed per virtual desktop.

Increase IOPS per Desktop—Fast Virtual Desktop Hard Drives

Atlantis ILIO processes all common disk read/write activity locally at the Windows NTFS protocol layer on the same rack (Top-Of-Rack deployment) or the same hypervisor (On Each Server Deployment), giving each virtual desktop a faster hard drive than a physical PC.  The impact of Atlantis ILIO on Initial system startup, logon performance and application usage is similar to that of replacing a physical PCs standard hard disk with a Solid State Drive (SSD), making the virtual desktop not only faster than a conventional desktop PC but also significantly cheaper than upgrading every physical desktop to deliver equivalent performance.