HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a desktop replacement solution that increases security, decreases cost and delivers higher availability for the desktop while continuing to provide end-users with the functionality of a stand-alone desktop. click to enlarge

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• Strong security and compliance: Secure desktop applications and data in the data center
• Higher availability: Bring high availability and rapid provisioning to the desktop environment
• Reduced management costs: Lower costs by performing desktop maintenance in a centralized environment
• Improve infrastructure investment: Use HP ProLiant and BladeSystem to power your desktop users

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Base VDI

Base VDI is a brokerless implementation that allows end users to connect directly to a VM resource without utilizing a connection brokers. This is a low cost alternative that offers many of the major advantages while trading off some scalability. Standard VDI is targeted at Business-to-business, small workgroup, some branch office and SMB implementations.

Standard VDI

Standard VDI implementation adds shared storage in the form of NAS or iSCSI based storage solutions such as HP's All-in-One storage products which may reduce the overall cost of the solution while enabling desirable features from VMware such as VMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler, High Availability as well as improving availability and data protection. Standard VDI by default uses VMwareVirtual Desktop Manager as the connection broker and is thus a dynamic implementation. Standard VDI implementations are capable of scaling into the thousands of users with lower hardware costs than an advanced implementation. However, as a rule, these implementations are optimized for less than 1,500 users as the cost of managing multiple NAS/iSCSI devices may become prohibitive in some organizations.

Enterprise VDI

Enterprise VDI, also a dynamic implementation, brings an array of enterprise capabilities to the desktop. By utilizing fibre-channel based SAN and implementing file shares for user data as a core feature rather than an option, Enterprise VDI offers the ability to architect complex disaster recovery scenarios, increase scalability and optimize the environment for security. The emphasis of Enterprise VDI is the highest levels of availability and data integrity for end user computing resources. Enterprise VDI is flexible enough to be implemented for anywhere between 100 and 10,000 or more users.