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VDI Deployment Success With Low Latency Pure Storage Flasharray

Like many municipalities, the City of Davenport wanted to transition to the more flexible and efficient IT infrastructure afforded by virtual desktops (VDI).

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The Challenge: HDD-based Array Can’t Support VDI

Like many municipalities, the City of Davenport wanted to transition to the more flexible and efficient IT infrastructure afforded by virtual desktops (VDI). The City of Davenport IT department supports hundreds of employees, while needing to provide a specific level of service to those employees to ensure their productivity.

However, the mechanical disk-based array they were using wasn’t able to meet the performance requirements for their initial VDI pilot deployment of 50 VMs; the randomization of the IO stream caused by virtualization slowed the existing array beyond what would allow the IT team to succeed in getting new users on board. “Had we tried to force users to move to VDI using the disk array, the project would have failed,” said Cory Smith, City of Davenport IT.