Legacy Desktop Virtualization has been around for many years and has provided benefits that include centralized management, lower operating expenses, increased security, computing availability, and efficient application deployment. However, fast performance and scalability have been conspicuously absent from that list. Today, V3®’s Desktop Cloud Computing architecture makes it possible to add measurable performance improvements and high scalability to the value proposition of virtual desktops.
Increased Performance
V3 Systems delivers the fastest desktop cloud infrastructure in the industry today. V3 Appliances use PCIe-based solid state as V3-certified storage. This provides faster access time for working data, and lower context switching. This minimizes unnecessary CPU usage when switching between applications to overcome the problems of slow performance and poor end user experience associated with VDI. By keeping working memory (OS and Temp files) closer to the CPU, access latency is reduced by an order of magnitude while providing optimal use of local storage. This architecture only leverages expensive shared storage (SANs and NAS) for persistent (user) data.
So what does V3 mean to its Customers?
V3 Guaranteed Performance: Every V3 Appliance is guaranteed to outperform high-performance physical desktops.
V3 Guaranteed Utilization: Every V3 Appliance is guaranteed to maintain that superior performance, even at full capacity with heavy workload users.
V3 Guaranteed Availability: Every V3 Appliance is delivered with V3’s Optimization Layer™ Technology & Optimized Desktop Allocation (“ODA”) Tools, which enable Customers to migrate and access their persistent or non-persistent desktops in the Cloud locally or remotely, without sacrificing performance.
Improved Manageability
Legacy virtual desktop management is performed by a combination of SAN, networking, and core infrastructure administrators, which is unnecessarily complicated and expensive because of the large number of people involved. Moreover, it leaves desktop administrators completely out of the equation. V3’s simplified Desktop Cloud Architecture returns desktop control back to desktop administrators who can now manage thousands of desktops remotely, from centralized or decentralized locations.
Improved Scalability
Because the V3 Appliance density and performance is so high, deployments result in lower sprawl with efficient machines that “drop in” to scale from 100’s, to 1000’s, even 10’s of thousands without compromising V3’s Performance Guarantees.
V3’s Optimized Technology stack includes V3 Certified Storage™, the V3 Local Storage Management (LSM) Framework™, and the Local V3 Manager™. The V3 Certified Storage utilizes best-of-breed Solid State technology and configures it optimally using best practices for local storage in V3 Appliances.
V3 certifies the storage and builds the communications framework with its V3 Local Storage Management Framework. The V3 LSM leverages best practices to bridge optimized two-way communications between the V3 Certified Storage and the managers located on the appliances, as well as across networks. The V3 Manager monitors, manages, and optimizes the V3 Certified Storage for optimal configuration and reporting. Health and Performance are reported and delivered either to V3’s Local Management interface, or to VMware’s vCenter™ via a plugin
The V3 appliance can easily accommodate scaling business and desktop needs. With its seamless integration into existing environments or new installations, the V3 appliance can deliver a solution that grows as your company grows. Need to expand your desktop cloud infrastructure to support another 50 to 400 users? Simply add another 1U or 2U appliance to your current infrastructure.
Lowered Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Your cost benefits are derived from the way V3 implements desktop cloud computing. By replacing high-density disk arrays with more cost-efficient V3 Appliances, operational costs are lowered. V3 Appliance density results in lower sprawl, reduced energy consumption and cooling costs, more efficient machines and lower total cost of ownership without sacrificing performance, availability or utilization. And depending on the type of desktops you are replacing, V3’s solution can provide you with maximum savings when you replace higher-cost PCs with V3’s desktop replacement grade virtualization.

