Attention VARs!!!
Are you currently in the planning and/or design phases of building a highly scalable and highly available XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure?
Are you planning to take advantage of the performance, scalability and reliability capabilities of SAN storage to store the virtual images (VHDs) that will be streamed to virtual machines hosting the desktops?
Are you spending a lot of time trying to find the best way to ensure that the infrastructure achieves the highest levels of performance, scalability, availability and manageability in order to realize the greatest return on your investment?
If so, please take a few minutes to read the following white paper: http://www.sanbolic.com/pdfs/HA_Options_for_Citrix_Virtual_Solutions.pdf.
This paper highlights the storage options most frequently considered by organizations looking to enable high availability for Provisioning Services™, or PVS™ (the underlying technology used to stream images on demand to virtual machines hosting virtual desktops).
Once you’ve finished reading the paper it will be obvious why, out of all the options available for enabling high availability for Provisioning Services, only Sanbolic Melio 2010 has proven to actually enhance Citrix XenDesktop!
Organizations that have deployed Citrix XenDesktop with Sanbolic Melio 2010 have achieved the following:
1. Simplified maintenance of vDisk images by consolidating all vDisks onto a single volume on SAN storage, with all vDisk changes available for streaming by multiple PVS Servers immediately, i.e., no need to replicate the vDisks to different PVS Servers to ensure vDisk consistency.
2. Enhanced I/O performance using stripe sets to leverage multiple storage controllers, caching and spindles, thereby improving the user experience.
3. Quick and seamless scale out by adding more PVS Servers or more storage resources on the fly, with little effort and no interruption in user productivity.
4. Enhanced utilization of storage resources to keep storage costs at a minimum.
5. Centralized management of storage resources as all physical disks are virtualized and managed from a single console that can be accessed locally or remotely.
6. Improved fault-tolerance via high availability of vDisks as well as the PVS database.
7. Protection for vDisks using VSS-based snapshots of shared volumes or individual vDisks, with the ability to mount snapshots on any PVS Server and browse through the snapshots quickly and easily via Explorer.exe.
If your interest in Sanbolic Melio 2010 is piqued by the information presented in the white paper and you’d like to see a live demonstration of how Melio 2010 enhances Citrix solutions, please contact us at sales@sanbolic.com and one of our sales representatives would be happy to schedule a demonstration for you.
For a more detailed look at how Sanbolic Melio 2010 optimizes Citrix XenDesktop, check out this paper: http://www.sanbolic.com/pdfs/Optimizing_Citrix_XenDesktop_VDI_Solutions_with_Sanbolic_Melio_2010.pdf, which explains how Melio 2010 enables the seamless scale-out of XenDesktop to allow organizations to extend the benefits of VDI to a larger percentage of their users.
To learn more about Sanbolic’s SAN-storage enhancing software, Melio 2010, please visit http://www.sanbolic.com. We’re confident you’ll see why Melio 2010 is the ideal choice for optimizing Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructures.
And while you’re there, check out the many other solutions we enhance, such as scalable file and web-serving farms, highly available SQL Server clusters and enterprise-class server virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V.
Sanbolic – Building better solutions with virtual shared storage!
Cheers,
Andy
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