The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Storage Behaviors and Requirements | SNIA

Abstract

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments enjoy continued growth in deployment and use. This growth increases the need to understand the storage utilization and characteristics of VDI installations. This presentation will cover the Hyper-V VDI deployment model along with the storage utilization patterns as the Windows VDI guests move through their life-cycle. Detailed performance analysis will be shared to provide insight into what is needed to successfully build SMB 3.0 shared storage solutions for VDI deployments. The attendee will gain insight into the VDI storage and networking requirements along with the ability to do basic analysis of a SMB 3.0 workload and how to analyze its performance.

Learning Objectives

Gain knowledge of Hyper-V VDI storage behaviors
Understand how to analyze SMB3.0 performance