Atlantis Computing Solutions
Atlantis ILIO addresses the two major challenges of VDI:
- User acceptance—VDI desktops run into performance issues and disappoint end users
- High storage costs—VDI uses storage inefficiently and does not scale without massive CAPEX investments
Atlantis ILIO is a VDI storage and performance optimization solution that integrates with Citrix, VMware, Quest and other VDI offerings to cut storage costs, increase desktop performance and streamline image management. Atlantis ILIO is delivered as a plug-and-play hardware appliance that instantly reduces the amount of VDI storage needed and boosts VDI desktop performance by inserting the ILIO appliance into each VDI server rack. In addition, IT organizations can use any storage solution they like without worrying about performance issues. When enterprises are ready to deliver rapid deployment of patches and updates, they can turn on Atlantis ILIO’s image management feature by purchasing an additional image management license.
VDI Storage Reduction
In order to deploy VDI successfully, IT organizations must make massive upfront capital expenditures to purchase storage capacity and network infrastructure for VDI desktops. Atlantis ILIO simplifies VDI deployments, and cuts the cost and complexity involved, making the delivery of VDI desktops more attractive to IT organizations. With Atlantis ILIO, VDI performs more efficiently with any storage solution and requires up to 20 times less storage depending on the Atlantis ILIO options purchased. Atlantis ILIO consolidates physical storage by eliminating duplicate information contained in virtual machine images in real-time before it hits the SAN. Storage needs are further reduced by providing massive amounts of storage throughput at the VDI rack level to terminate locally most windows operating system traffic from VDI desktops. In addition, Atlantis ILIO enables customers to choose less expensive storage options.
VDI Performance Acceleration
To achieve the equivalent performance of a physical PC, VDI requires an enormous storage infrastructure build-out to support IO intensive tasks required by the Microsoft Windows operating system. Without the most sophisticated and costly of storage systems, VDI desktops fail to meet user expectations with long boot times and poor application performance. Atlantis ILIO makes VDI desktops perform up to 10 times faster by efficiently optimizing Windows VM storage access requests at the file system level, lowering network latency and offloading up to 95% of storage traffic from the network and storage systems. The result is faster VM boot times, increased desktop and application performance and fast virtual cloning. In addition, Atlantis ILIO will eliminate VDI bottlenecks caused by boot storms, logon storms as well as IO bottlenecks due to antivirus scanning.
VDI Image Management
The total cost of managing the lifecycle of a PC including provisioning, patching and upgrading its image can cost hundreds of dollars per user per year. Whether you are using traditional PCs or virtual desktops, image and desktop management consumes 25-26% of the IT Operations budget even when the PC is locked down and well-managemed1. The reason for this is that VDI approaches to image management (Linked Clone, Copy on Write) have severe limitations including an inability for users to install applications or for administrator to patch and update the master image. Atlantis ILIO enables enterprises to transform the way IT organizations manage VDI desktop images from manually configuring, upgrading and patching hundreds of monolithic images to managing a single set of master image components. By taking a new approach to image management for VDI, ILIO provides the benefits of centralized image management with the ability to allow users to install applications and give administrators the ability to instantly patch and update all VDI desktops.
1 Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2008 Update, January 24th, 2008, Gartner ID Number: G00153705. Percentage Calculated based on "Desktop Management" as a percentage of "IT Operations"