Atlantis kit is awesome....I know a guy who works for them. They get something crazy like 35,000 iOps, and when you see them launching apps...you can launch about 15-20 at a time and they open instantaneously. Pretty cool stuff.
If anyone in the UK wants a demo I can put you onto a guy I know. The barrier to it before was persistence, but now they've cracked that. They're even talking about running servers on it or any kind of virtual appliance you want, it's all possible. Cheers, JR On 4 July 2013 12:39, Steve Burkett <[email protected]> wrote: > All the guys at our local Citrix User Group were going potty over > Atlantis Computing’s Atlantis ILIO product. > > > > Basically is creates a large RAM-based disk in a virtual machine on your > box, with it doing compression and de-duplication of I/O on the fly, so > what actually needs to be put down to physical disk is much much less > meaning you don’t need SSD’s or as many SAS disks in the server. With the > virtual desktop client’s effectively running their disk I/O straight from > RAM, they give better performance than most SSD’s can which gives good end > user experience. > > > > Cost was around $120 per client I believe, which seems reasonable compared > to enterprise SSD costs. > > > > Grab Brian Madden’s free The New VDI Reality book from their site if you > haven’t already! > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Wimberly > *Sent:* 03 July 2013 23:31 > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] VDI Server Hardware Critique > > > > Kurt, Our Dell rep tells me that I could set this up on SATA drives on > RAID 5, which scares me. If SATA on RAID 5 would be 'acceptible' then I > think SSD would be just overkill, but if anyone has tried this I would love > to hear your experience. > > > > Christopher, Good Question. We have over 500 desktops in total, so we > certainly aren't trying for 100% VDI. The thought is that we would use the > first box to learn on and see what our CPU and IOPS looks like. I am > hoping to use the first box "officially" for 50 workstations, but 75 to 100 > if a box ever dies. When we add more boxes in the future we will have the > fault tolerance built in with a "farm" of VDI host boxes. > > > > An external array would be more than the budget allows, so we are > attempting to go with internal drives. Since the workstations in mind will > boot at different times there should not be much of a login storm. > > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Christopher Bodnar < > [email protected]> wrote: > > What do you expect the concurrency to be on average? > > My biggest problem with something like this is that you have no fault > tolerance. So if this one box goes down, all these part time helpers are > down. > > *Christopher Bodnar* > Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise > Architecture and Engineering Services > > Tel 610-807-6459 > 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 > [email protected] > > > * > The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America* > * > *www.guardianlife.com > > > > > > > From: "Stephen Wimberly" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 07/01/2013 06:37 PM > Subject: [NTSysADM] VDI Server Hardware Critique > Sent by: [email protected] > ------------------------------ > > > > Please critique the following "budget" VDI Server purchase. I know there > is no "correct" hardware, but also want to hear what others think. > > USE: Approximately 50 workstations via Microsoft RDS that will run > Microsoft Office (Most will not use Outlook, but rather webmail). All will > have Adobe Reader, but not licensed Adobe products. These will be shared > computers, generally not used by full time staff personnel but part time > helpers so the login/logoff storm will be more random. > > SERVER: > Dell PowerEdge R720 > CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2680 (8 Core) > Memory: 192 GB (12x16GB @ 1600 RDIMS > RAID 10 (H710 PERC) > HDD: 16 300GB 10K 2.5" > NIC: BCOM 5720 Daughter Card > OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 > Microsoft Hyper V > Remote Desktop Services > > (We may wait for Server 2012 R2 for the deduplication on the HyperV > guests.) > > This will be our first step into VDI, so any advance thoughts would be > appreciated. > > Thank you in Advance! > > > ----------------------------------------- This message, and any > attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, > confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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