What Is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

Common Challenges of VDI Deployment

Slow or erratic virtual desktops can bring productivity to a halt and result in higher administration costs. Storage performance is often the number one problem—as well as the most expensive component—for VDI. 

All-flash storage in combination with efficient data reduction dramatically improves VDI success while keeping costs in check. As a result, IT departments are increasingly looking to converged infrastructure and integrated architectures to alleviate problems with performance and deployment, and to help standardize and consolidate desktop workloads.

Unfortunately, many existing converged infrastructure solutions are based on old, slow, and inefficient disk storage or on nonoptimized hybrid storage systems. As a result, they’re unsuitable for VDI workloads which demand an always-on, high-performance foundation.

Why Choose Pure Storage to Support Your VDI Deployments?

Pure Storage® FlashStack™ provides prevalidated architecture and fast, resilient, and scalable all-flash performance for VDI that meets the demands of end-users as well as the IT department. It ensures successful deployment and simple ongoing management of VDI.