VDI delivered by HPE and VMware

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has attained new importance in the wake of the work-from-home revolution that has unfolded over the past year. Where are you in your VDI journey?

Are you adopting virtual desktop infrastructures for the first time? Or is your legacy Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment challenged by increasing user and application demands?

Escape data-center dependence

Traditionally, VDI is a data-center-hosted solution directly delivered to an end user and evaluated by the end-user experience. As such, VDI relies heavily on the adjacent data-center environment. It shares certain subsystems such as network, storage, and database management, and also uses dedicated resources such as compute or storage.

As a result of this data-center dependence, deploying a brand-new VDI environment or upgrading/replacing an existing one can be a complex and expensive task. HPE and VMware® partnering for more than 20 years, offer a set of options that can make it easier and less expensive. Let’s take a look.

HPE GreenLake—cloud-like experience and pay-per-use model

With the HPE GreenLake VDI solution with VMware, HPE manages the complexity and does the heavy lifting of VDI deployment.

It delivers a VDI platform as a service with a cloud-like experience and pay-per-use model based on virtualization-ready HPE SimpliVity solutions. The result combines the security, performance, and compliance of an on-premises VDI solution with the simplicity and flexibility of the cloud. What’s more, the system offers a highly scalable end-to-end solution that can be easily adapted to particular user needs such as GPU-accelerated workloads.

VDI on HCI infrastructure—highly manageable and scalable

Another option is to deploy VDI on VMware vSAN-ready nodes on HPE HCI infrastructure with HPE SimpliVity. This is a more traditional approach to a customer-managed VDI deployment on premises.

HPE-certified modular building blocks with preinstalled hypervisor are integrated into the hyperconverged data center infrastructure simplifying the overall data center infrastructure and delivering a highly manageable and scalable solution.

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)—unified compute, storage, and fabric

Consider building a VDI environment with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). VCF enables the solution to be deployed as Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC), an ideal platform for a hybrid cloud solution.

Direct integration with underlying hardware through HPE OneView connector, provides a unified approach to configuring hardware through a GUI as well as a single, open API for integration with VCF components. This modular approach enables the overall solution to be efficiently scaled up and down, delivering a unified pool of compute, storage, and fabric.

VMware Horizon—remote desktops and applications as a managed service

VMware Horizon delivers a VDI solution with or without GPU acceleration as published desktops and applications with either Microsoft Windows 10 or Microsoft Windows Server used as the VDI-delivery operating system.

With VMware Horizon, IT departments can run remote desktops and applications in the data center and deliver them as a managed service. End users gain a familiar and personalized environment accessible from multiple devices anywhere in the enterprise or from home. Administrators gain centralized control, efficiency, and security by having desktop data in the data center.

As we have shown, you have some great options to up your VDI game with HPE and VMware. Learn more about VDI and other technology solutions at VMworld 2021 October 5 – 7, 2021. Register today.