Enabling the Always-On Enterprise
VDI pilot to production at enterprise scale
"While VDI generates a great deal of industry buzz, the dirty little secret here is the unexpected storage challenges that come with it. Sanbolic's Melio VDI offering uniquely addresses these performance and availability issues without the necessity of expensive capital investments in proprietary hardware."
- David Hill, Founder and Principal Analyst, Mesabi Group.
The Problem
Virtual desktop deployments can impose tremendous strain on traditional storage infrastructures. VDI installations are frequently derailed by unexpected storage cost, complexity and performance degradation.
The Solution
Sanbolic Melio is the critical link between a customer's storage infrastructure and a successful Citrix XenDesktop VDI implementation. Our host-based, data management solution augments the existing storage infrastructure to enable a complete enterprise-class VDI environment in less time, with less effort, and lower upfront costs than previously possible.
Key Benefits
By decoupling the data management responsibility from any single storage system, Melio creates a more flexible, scalable and cost effective shared storage (and data) architecture that accelerates the PoC-to-production timeline in VDI implementations. The improved performance, increased availability and reduced per-seat storage cost resulting from the Sanbolic approach make customers' enterprise-class virtual desktop deployments a reality without breaking the bank.
Key Features & Enhancements
- Citrix-Ready certified
- Host-based, Hypervisor agnostic
- Multi-site support out of the box
- Simplified desktop image and storage management
- Seamless infrastructure scale-out
- Enhanced system fault-tolerance