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Follow UsNEW DELHI, INDIA: EMC Corporation announced a new EMC unified storage solution for Citrix XenDesktop environments.
The solution built on the EMC VNX unified storage with full NFS support, and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform that has desktop density and IO performance, provides integrated application streaming and centralized desktop management for 1,000 users, says a release.
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The solution expands EMC’s portfolio enabling Citrix customers to accelerate the adoption of virtual desktop infrastructures, the release adds.
Parmeet Chaddha, vice president, Solutions Group, EMC, said: “EMC is laser focused on developing and delivering solutions that address our customers most pressing requirements. Our new solution for Citrix XenAPP and XenDesktop demonstrates EMC’s virtualization leadership because it is an optimized, simplified and high-performance architecture which seamlessly leverages the advanced functionality inherent to Citrix and EMC VNX unified storage platform.”
The solution utilizes a building-block approach which can then scale to thousands of virtual desktops.
EMC also announced updates to the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) plug-in. It now simplifies the creation of multiple virtual desktop machines and registering them with Citrix XenDesktop.
VSI continues to support self service storage provisioning and management across all EMC VNX unified storage platforms. The new integration now provides customers the ability to deploy XenDesktop and EMC VNX storage regardless of hypervisor.
Through integration with XenApp, a key component of XenDesktop, the new solution can leaverage compression and replication on the EMC VNX to centralize management of the applications and improve storage utilization.
The new EMC Solution for XenDesktop is built upon the EMC VNX unified storage systems with flash technology.
"A login storm of 1000 users showed an average session start time of as low as 5 seconds. The login test generated over 11,000 IOPS from the storage repository with system cache and EMC FAST Cache absorbing almost all of the I/O. Moreover, the EMC VNX system required only thirty SAS drives and two flash drives to achieve these results which are less than half the drives needed to achieve similar results in a comparable competitive configuration," the release adds.