What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or VDI is the name given to a collection of technologies and processes that dramatically extend the concept of a remote desktop. The benefit of VDI is to address the spiraling costs of managing large numbers of physical desktops across an enterprise, without compromising the service users of those desktops enjoy.
In order to capture the maximum cash benefit from deploying VDI, while ensuring the user community has an outstanding experience in moving to a virtual infrastructure, an organization must thoroughly understand its software and hardware usage profile ahead of the implementation of VDI. This task, although sounds trivial, can be quite the challenge.
In addition, by focusing on application use and the impact on underlying desktop hardware utilization, it is possible to build up an accurate profile of those desktops that can be most easily migrated to a virtual environment. Iinformation on utilization within the existing physical estate ensures that server hardware specifications are capable of supporting the migrated workload, yet are not over specified.
Using Scalable Survey for VDI Migration Planning
Scalable’s Survey product has been designed to analyze the intensity and profile of desktop hardware and software usage. Trying to successfully plan for a migration from a physical to virtual desktop infrastructure, without knowing the extent to which the physical environment is being used prior to the migration, is like trying to size an ERP system without knowing how many people will use it.
No other technology provides the depth and focus on desktop hardware and software asset utilization as Scalable Survey.
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Virtualization Challenges:
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How Scalable Helps:
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Accurately determine the hardware resource requirements of the virtual desktop server.
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Survey has been designed to analyze the aggregate and concurrent intensity and profile of desktop hardware usage across the entire estate.
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Accurately determine the number of and type of desktop software licenses required to support the move to VDI.
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Survey will ensure all opportunities for licence fee savings, by moving to VDI, are fully captured.
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Monitor the acceptance of VDI in terms of application use under the VDI model and ensure license compliance.
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Survey can show in detail how well VDI is being exploited, whether any drift back to physical desktop use is occuring and the extent to which such drift creates a license compliance exposure.
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Accurately plan your VDI IT budget for the next year and forecast future budget needs.
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Scalable Survey’s unique asset utilization technology provides exactly the information necessary to support your current and future VDI planning cycles.
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Extending the Life of the Virtual Machine
Whether you are a strictly a virtual desktop shop, a strictly physical shop, or a combination of the two, Scalable's WinINSTALL provides seamless management of both environments from a single management console. Managing a physical and virtual environment has never been easier.
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