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The VDI Storage Challenge

There are plenty of storage products and strategies for performance or data protection, but this InfoStor report suggests that fine tuning your storage environment to maximize your virtual server environment may seem like a walk in the park compared to performing the same task in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

"Gartner estimates that, so far, only about 500,000 desktops are running on VMs – a fraction of the $150 billion PC market. However, Gartner predicts that IT will migrate 30% of its installed based of PCs to VMs by 2014. If that happens, the ranks of VMs running client systems will swell to more than 18 million.

"According to Fegreus, best practices call for deploying desktop VMs four to eight times more densely than server VMs (which is possible because of the sporadic nature of desktop usage). This is great in the context of cost savings, but dense deployment also leads to resource utilization storms involving I/O, storage, CPU and memory resources."