EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)

EMC provided in January, 2012 updates for the connected EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) which simplify a problem of creation of a set of virtual desktops and their registration using XenDesktop Citrix. VSI continues to support a system of self-service of data storage and management in all unified platforms of data storage of EMC VNX. New integration gives to clients now an opportunity to easily unroll XenDesktop and a storage system of EMC VNX irrespective of a hypervisor (the management program for operating systems).

Thanks to close interaction with XenApp, to the key XenDesktop component, the new solution can apply differently compression and copying on EMC VNX to centralized operation by applications and increases in utilization coefficient of resources of data storage. It provides to customers flexible solutions of the desktops optimized for the satisfaction of their unique requirements.

The new solution of EMC for XenDesktop is based on the unified storage systems of EMC VNX with expanded a flash technologies which provide to customers flexibility of the choice and control as they support supply of resources of a virtual desktop. Customers can optimize and manage the infrastructure, having been sure that the storage system of EMC will execute requests and to be scaled so that to meet their specific (unique) requirements. The EMC FAST Cache technology provides IOPS necessary to increase the radius of actions of virtual desktops of SLA and to provide the maximum capacity of easy scaling without loss of energy, space and purchase costs connected with a big array of data storage.

To show advantages of performance of EMC FAST Suite which includes technologies of EMC FAST VP and EMC FAST Cache the new solution was tested at different workloads, including Boot Storms loadings, anti-virus scanning, Patch of installation and response time. Simultaneous registration of 1000 users showed the average time of the beginning of a session of only 5 seconds. The test for registration caused more than 11000 IOPS from a repository of storage with a system a cache memory and EMC FAST Cache, having absorbed almost all I/O. Moreover, the EMC VNX system needs only thirty SAS drivers and two flash drives for achievement of these results that makes less than a half of the disks necessary for achievement of similar results in comparable competitive configurations.