Simplify VDI deployment with V3’s drop-in appliance
Deploying a desktop cloud infrastructure, whether on-site or co-located in a data center, offers compelling advantages to any company seeking to increase employee productivity, centralize desktop management, and reduce IT costs. However, the drawbacks of legacy VDI architectures have greatly curtailed virtual desktop adoption. Conventional VDI deployments are complex and expensive, requiring a huge capital outlay for servers, storage disk arrays, and additional hardware, along with a labor-intensive installation, significant network downtime, and training costs. In addition, network performance has generally been slow, resulting in unsatisfying end-user experiences.
Equally deterring are the increased IT resources needed to maintain these complicated VDIs, adding significant operational expenditures to the already high capital expenditure. Future scaling and upgrading represent further costly investments in time, server hardware and floor space. In short, expensive and complex deployments have curtailed widespread adoption of legacy VDI, which has proven to be more of a burden than a benefit for IT management.
Enter V3 Systems. V3 Systems has simplified desktop virtualization infrastructure with an innovative server appliance that makes it possible to achieve virtual desktop performance that is 2-8x faster than physical desktops, hosted from a single 1Uor 2U server appliance. The high-density V3 appliance supports 50 – 400 virtual desktops with minimal IT support.
The Benefits of Simplicity
Simplified Appliance Architecture. By utilizing advanced solid-state local storage, and V3 Optimization Layer ™ Technologies, maximum hosting power has been achieved in a compact 1U or 2U server rack appliance, capable of supporting 50 – 400 virtual desktops per appliance. The V3 solution only leverages expensive shared storage (SANs and NAS) for persistent user data. All software, local storage, and processing hardware, has been fully optimized within a single rack-mounted device, making the V3 appliance a true cloud-in-a-box solution.
Easy to Deploy.
V3 appliances use a simple ‘plug and play’ approach to installation. An appliance can generally be installed in under two hours (assuming an existing VMware infrastructure), and only requires 1-2U of existing server rack space.
The V3 server appliance functions simply as an ESX host in a VMware ecosystem – just configure it, connect the network and deploy the desktop pools. With easy manageability and high scalability, the V3 appliance accommodates a customer anywhere on the desktop virtualization adoption curve, delivering virtual desktops to almost any client device, including desktops, laptops, thin clients and tablets.
Seamless data center integration is accomplished by housing every system- and software-critical component within the V3 appliance, resulting in an all-in-one VDI solution that is ready to implement right out of the box. The downtime and labor costs typically associated with large scale deployment become a non-issue.
Easy to Support.
With substantially less hardware to support and the ability to perform distributed deployment of virtual desktops through a single, user-friendly interface, the simplicity of the V3 architecture translates into minimal IT management. V3 Systems takes scalability to an entirely new level with an innovative ‘building block’ solution that allows IT to quickly deploy anywhere from 50 to thousands of virtual desktops by adding additional V3 appliances into additional server racks.
Reduce both Capital and Operational Expenditures.
V3 provides the most cost-effective virtual desktop offering today, by providing a solution that simultaneously reduces both CapEx and OpEx. Deployment and management cost significantly less than most competitors due to a simplified infrastructure requiring less hardware, installation time, and energy usage. V3’s solutions also help companies save money through concurrent software licensing, allowing companies to pay for only the number of licenses in use at any one time (regardless of machine), rather than requiring a dedicated full license for every user machine.
