Top VDI storage challenges and tips for overcoming them.
- As with any technology deployment, you first must assess what kind of ROI it will provide your business. If the VDI project is taking up a lot of your IT department’s time with little to no benefit, your project will undoubtedly fail.
With VDI projects, companies can often over-provision storage in an effort to meet performance requirements. This creates a higher capital cost than needed with companies buying hundreds of disks and installing more capacity than necessary, eventually leading to higher operational costs. Over-provisioning creates a large storage footprint, increasing management, space, and power and cooling expenses.
Find a solution that can easily illustrate how many virtual machines a given system can handle. Remember, high VM density can help change the economics of VDI storage. A pilot program is a great way to start out to see if your storage solution will fit your current and projected needs.