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How VDI‑in‑a‑Box Works

VDI‑in‑a‑Box has been purpose-built to simplify and streamline virtual desktops—so you get a production-quality solution with built-in high availability at less than half the cost.

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Purpose-built to eliminate management overhead

Compare a production deployment setup using enterprise-class VDI with VDI‑in‑a‑Box. A traditional enterprise-class VDI deployment includes a pair each of load balancers and connection brokers to manage the desktop sessions and ensure high availability, compute servers to provision and manage the desktops, and management servers to control the environment. VDI‑in‑a‑Box consolidates all this functionality into its virtual appliance; connection brokering, load balancing, high availability, desktop provisioning and management are all built-in. This radically simplifies setup and management, and lowers costs.

Pooled or Personal – your choice

VDI-in-a-Box provides personalized desktops where users can install their own applications and store their configuration and data. These personalized desktops are generated from a master image providing the best of both worlds: users get personalized desktops while windows desktop administrators manage a single master image. This saves time and money while delivering a highly personalized end-user experience.

Personalized Virtual Desktops offer another big benefit: single instance management. Rather than juggling many persistent desktops, IT can maintain one master copy of desktop images while preserving the personalization of user applications and data. This dramatically reduces recurring management overhead and cuts datacenter storage costs up to 90 percent.

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Deliver high availability without shared storage

Traditional VDI solutions require shared storage to deliver high availability—typically, in production settings, a SAN with high-speed interconnects. This is expensive. VDI‑in‑a‑Box eliminates this requirement and provides high availability and scaling using inexpensive direct-attached storage (DAS). Simply run VDI‑in‑a‑Box on two or more servers and the grid automatically load balances and ensures redundancy. VDI-in-a-Box now includes a grid-wide virtual IP address that ensures end-to-end high availability regardless of the endpoint device being used and without requiring a load balancer.
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Start small and deploy in phases using current budgets

VDI‑in‑a‑Box runs on inexpensive commodity servers—you can start with one or two and scale the deployment as needs grow. Since the upfront investment is minimal, VDI‑in‑a‑Box can be used to easily prove virtual desktops and scale incrementally.
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No need for organizational or cultural change

An intuitive management interface abstracts virtualization details so desktop IT can set up and manage the solution without additional datacenter expertise. Traditional VDI requires collaboration across storage, server and desktop IT teams.
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Avoid the bottlenecks that cause scaling issues in traditional VDI

By eliminating centralized bottlenecks such as separate connection servers, management servers and shared storage pools, the VDI‑in‑a‑Box grid architecture avoids issues such as "boot storms" that create bottlenecks in traditional VDI architectures.

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