Release: Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI 3.2
On May 7 Atlantis Computing announced the general availability of its Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI 3.2, this product, tailored in particular for VMware View 5.1, enables virtual desktops deployment with no storage.
Atlantis claims to lower the cost of virtual desktops below $200 per desktop with its product that performs IO traffic processing and inline duplication of images to run all desktops from local server memory.
In particular release 3.2 includes advanced compression and Fast Cloning technologies for VMware View 5.1 and seems to be able to reduce the size of VMware View linked-clones to around 500MB per desktop using a combination of inline reduplication and compression technologies.
Atlantis Computing says that its Fast Cloning technology, integrated with Diskless VDI, is able to clone virtual desktop images in five seconds per desktop enabling the deployment of 100 VMware View 5.1 virtual desktops per server in 8.5 minutes.
Atlantis ILIO has been tested with VMware View, VMware ThinApp® Linked-Clones and Persona as part of the “VMware View, Atlantis ILIO and Trend Micro Reference Architecture”. To read the document, visit
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/7611/files/2489Atlantis ILIO is certified as VMware Ready and can be found within the VMware Solution Exchange at
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/7611What’s New in Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI 3.2?
- Advanced Image Compression - Reduces the amount of memory needed per virtual desktop image.
- Fast Cloning for Diskless VDI - Atlantis ILIO Fast Cloning can clone virtual desktop images in 5 seconds, making it possible to deploy 100 VMware View 5.1 virtual desktops in less than 8 1/2 minutes.
Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI Benefits Include:
- Unmatched Performance - Dramatically improves all aspects of desktop performance including boot, login, application launches, patching and anti-virus scanning.
- Lower Cost - Atlantis ILIO reduces the cost per desktop from both a CAPEX and OPEX perspective: - CAPEX - The upfront cost per desktop can be decreased to under $200 per desktop including the server hardware, Atlantis ILIO license and storage. - OPEX - Diskless VDI architectures mean that IT organizations can lower operating expenses by eliminating rack space for SAN/NAS storage, lower power consumption and cooling costs, and eliminate the operational expenses of maintaining disk-based storage including replacing failed disks.
- Increased Lifespan - Memory does not suffer from the lifespan issues SSDs have when dealing with write-intensive VDI workloads. Diskless VDI architectures have lower operational costs as disk failure and replacement have been completely eliminated.
Labels: Atlantis Computing, Release, VDI, VMware View
VMware certifies vSphere 5 for Open Compute Project
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On May 3 VMware announced it has joined the Facebook Open Compute Project, an initiative launched in 2011, with the objective of increase technology efficiencies and reduce the environmental impact of data centers.
VMware vSphere 5 is now certified to run on open AMD and Intel-based hardware following the project’s specifications enabling Open Compute users to virtualize production workloads and business-critical applications.
VMware is committed to delivering innovative technology that transforms and redefines how businesses function and operate in the cloud era. VMware vSphere® 5 is now certified to run on Open Compute AMD-and Intel-based v2.0 server platforms. With VMware vSphere 5 now expanding to cover a wide range of embedded processors, I/O devices and servers, customers are offered a greater choice in IT solutions.
said Richard A. Brunner, chief platform architect, VMware.
Labels: Open Compute Project, VMware, VMware View
Teradici announced APEX 2800 support for VMware View 5.1 and vSphere
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Teradici, the developer of the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) remote desktop protocol, which is leveraged in software (by VMware view) and provided with Teradici hardware solutions which are OEM’ed by several vendors, announced the compatibility of APEX 2800 server offload card with the latest release of VMware View 5.1, maintaining full compatibility with all current VMware View and VMware vSphere releases.
The Teradici PCoIP server offload card is an hardware add-on available as a standard PCIe expansion card that monitors the graphical demands and dynamically offloads the most active 64 displays on the server.
Labels: Teradici, VMware View
Release: VMware View 5.1
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Today VMware disclosed the new features of VMware View 5.1, its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platform. This version is the follow up of version 5 which was released in August 2011.
The most important features can be summarized as follows:
- View Storage Accelerator, already announced for View 5.0 and lifted at the last moment, this feature is borrowed from vSphere’s Content Based Read Cache (CBRC) and basically caches frequently used disk blocks into VDI host’s RAM avoiding frequent reading of the same informations from central storage.
- View Persona Management is now extended to physical machine with the main purpose of VDI migrations or OSes migrations.
- vCenter Operations (vCOPs) Manager for View is a new version, optimized for virtual desktop deployment, that provides end-to-end realtime monitoring of desktop and users. Already announced at VMworld Europe last year now includes a very requested feature: the ability to monitor PCoIP performance. This new release could help companies to use a single management stack for both private clouds/infrastructures and VDI.
We also wish to report an important consideration by Brian Madden:
.. the biggest thing we recently learned from VMware (thanks to Vittorio) is that they are planning (in the future) to deliver single remote Windows applications via PCoIP, and they will also deliver complete remote Windows desktops via HTML5. That’s huge. Right now you can only connect to a complete remote Windows desktop via PCoIP. VMware demonstrated technology they’re calling “AppBlast” which delivers single applications via a browser, but that was HTML5 only. So basically in the future we’ll be able to connect to single remote Windows apps via PCoIP or HTML5, and complete remote desktops via PCoIP or HTML5.
Labels: Release, VMware, VMware View
Paper: VMware View and ThinApp integration with Citrix XenApp
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VMware published a technical paper titled: Integrating VMware View and VMware ThinApp with Citrix XenApp which describes how to integrate an existing Citrix XenApp installation with VMware ThinApp and VMware View.
The discussion is focused on the presentation of ThinApp virtual application through XenApp Servers to users on VMware View virtual desktops.
The paper includes an interesting comparison between Application Presentation, Application Streaming and Application Virtualization which highlights the differences in Citrix application virtualization and VMware ThinApp application virtualization.
Labels: Citrix, VMware, VMware ThinApp, VMware View, XenApp
VMware View 5 Network Optimization
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PCoIP is an adaptive protocol that works to deliver the best possible user experience for any given network and CPU constraints. In the majority of environments, this is the desired approach. However, there can be times where individual users or group administrators are interested in different resource utilization policies. For instance, administrators may not want users consuming too much corporate LAN bandwidth streaming youtube videos! The View PCoIP protocol provides a number of options that can be used to impose these constraints on audio and video streaming operations, while only having a minimal impact on quality: Video Setting the maximum frame rate to 15 and the maximum initial image quality to 70 or 80, can reduce the bandwidth associated with video playback by 2 to 4X in the LAN environment. Even with the maximum initial image quality reduced to 70, image quality is good, even for high quality mp4 videos. Audio Setting the session audio bandwidth limit to 100 can reduce the audio bandwidth by around 5X. Even with this change, audio quality is good. More details on how to apply these settings (and additional global resource constraint settings) can be found in the View 5 network optimization whitepaper (located here). |
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