?Infortrend ESVA and EonStor DS Systems Optimized for VDI

Infortrend Technology, Inc. refines and improves virtualisation performance on its product range.

The ESVA and EonStor DS RAID subsystems feature the computing power, flexible scalability, and data services required for VDI deployment.

Their designs can handle compute loads generated by peak IO/s consumption periods, while multi-lateral scalability helps customers expand virtual networks as needed.

VDI stands as one of the most useful virtualisation methodologies used. Virtual desktops reduce TCO compared to physical machines. Upfront purchase and maintenance costs are zero, plus they free users from being tied to a physical location, thus enabling remote productivity. Virtual desktops promote consolidated management and are easier to supervise than physical machines, as MIS can oversee them remotely with no need to attend to actual hardware. For similar reasons, VDIs offer improved security compared to actual desktops, with no hardware for external parties to attack and centralised management making monitoring more effective.

Both systems deliver storage capacities, and support up to 6,000 virtual desktops per system. They handle the needs of large enterprises, with each virtual desktop acting as a normal PC, including customisation for every user and the ability to install programs.

In terms of performance, the company delivers ample overhead to handle boot, log in, and log out storms. These represent peak activity times in a typical work day, and may cause networks running on inadequate hardware to crash. Bundled with View Planner and Iometer, the RAID systems offer up to 180K IO/s in RAID-1 configurations and 55K IO/s in RAID-6 total compute power. When using RAID-1 configuration and 15K SAS, actual Iometer VDI testing shows 4K IO/s per ESVA/EonStor DS system and 250 IO/s per disk which are more than up to handling access storms.

The interfaces simplify the task of VDI sizing (space and network resource allocation per VM) and enable the creation of linked clones. These offer static backup images of a parent virtual desktop that remains unaffected by changes to the source, which is useful for archiving purposes.

“Infortrend ESVA and EonStor DS product families show the results of the emphasis we place on virtualisation capabilities. With customers worldwide keen on increasing network performance while controlling expenditure, virtualisation is an attractive path. However, it requires storage systems keep up with regards to performance and ease of management. Infortrend products deliver above standard on all counts, ensuring stable and reliable virtual networks.” said Thomas Kao, senior director of product planning, Infortrend.