Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI

You Don’t Need Storage or SSDs for VDI Anymore

When deploying stateless virtual desktops, traditional storage and SSDs drive up the CAPEX and OPEX cost per desktop, don’t deliver the performance of a PC, and make it difficult to scale VDI deployments. IT administrators often choose stateless VDI based on the assumption that it requires less storage. However, while stateless virtual desktops do require less storage capacity than persistent virtual desktops, they have the same IOPS requirements. Therefore, using traditional SAN/NAS storage for stateless VDI has approximately the same $400-600 CAPEX cost per desktop as persistent desktops. With stateless VDI, organizations also have the option of using local Solid State Drives (SSDs) for the virtual desktop images (Citrix PVS write-cache or VMware View Linked Clone). However, SSDs are costly, increase operational cost and are unreliable, particularly when deployed at larger scale.

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The Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI Solution

Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI is the only solution in the industry to enable stateless Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments without the need for virtual desktop storage – which traditionally represents 40% to 60% of the total cost of a VDI deployment. Atlantis ILIO uses local server RAM as the only storage for virtual desktops, eliminating storage traffic and significantly simplifying deployment architectures. SSDs, SSD arrays and traditional SAS and SATA drives based storage are completely eliminated, greatly reducing CAPEX as well as all storage-related OPEX including power, cooling and the cost of maintaining and repairing failed devices.

Key Benefits

• Simplified architecture & design – no storage sizing and network traffic bottlenecks, just server memory!
  
• Lowered risks with full automation – remove human errors with automated sizing, configuration, cloning and install
  
• Faster VDI deployment – automated multi-rack install lets you go live in weeks, not months!
  
• Amazing user experience 300+ IOPS/User* – faster-than-PC user experience
  
• CAPEX below $200/user* – keep infrastructure costs under $200 per desktop including the server hardware, RAM and Atlantis ILIO
• Lower OPEX – enable lower operating expenses by eliminating rack space, power consumption, cooling and repair costs, and daily operational tasks of maintaining disk-based storage
  
• Complements existing solutions – complements existing VMware and Citrix VDI solutions with support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer hypervisor

Automated Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI Deployments

Atlantis ILIO Center fully automates the deployment and configuration of Atlantis ILIO across multiple servers and racks, providing data stores that are ready to be used by the VDI broker. The virtual desktop images are provisioned on a highly optimized Atlantis ILIO datastore that uses only a small amount of RAM per desktop (200MB to 600MB). The user persona including user files, settings and data are streamed to the desktop over the network from a file share or network-based storage system.