Legacy VDI solutions struggle to deliver customized, rich, user experiences to knowledge workers and power users alike, which can lead to project failure. Also, organizations often have to lay out a large capital expenditure (capex) to deploy IT capacities: This often leads to poor resource utilization and low return on investment (ROI) from VDI.

Legacy VDI: Performance Bottlenecks, Management Complexity, Poor User Experience

Desktop virtualization projects are expected to accelerate the virtual desktop and application delivery and meet specific requirements of all user groups, knowledge workers, power users and high-end graphic designers.

Organizations expect their VDI environments to align with user growth, without overprovisioning IT resources, which could imbalance the VDI ROI.

Lower-Cost Desktops With Simplified and Secure VDI Solution

Improve ROI with a software-defined VDI IT infrastructure that lowers operational overheads and optimizes resource utilization. Maintain control and visibility into VDI resources by consolidating resources and protect end points with policies that adapt to user needs.

Ensure user satisfaction by overcoming infrastructure bottlenecks with scalable high-performance IT. Consolidate your VDI and other applications on single hyperconverged platform with guaranteed service level objectives (SLOs). Provide anywhere, anytime access to any application on any device with enhanced security with microsegmentation.

Rapid Desktop Deployments With Hyperconverged Hitachi Solution and VMware Horizon

High Performance for Smooth User Experience Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) systems deliver powerful performance to negate login and scan storms, and ensure superior user experience. They provide consistently high IOPS and sub-millisecond response times to eliminate any impact of I/O variability. Supports superior desktop experience.

Streamlined Administration

Deploy, manage and control virtual desktops and applications from a centralized interface to streamline operations. Manage storage needs

without additional manpower. Eliminate complexity of separate compute and storage boxes.

Experience easier installation, onboarding and day-two management. Realize full benefit of next- gen integrated hyperconverged appliances. Simplifies management of an integrated VDI platform.

Linear Scale Out

Eliminate guesswork from compute and storage sizing by embracing software-defined storage that scales horizontally and delivers predictable virtual machine (VM) density. Free capital by investing in IT capacities rather than new desktops. Avoid recurring issues of storage bottleneck or compute overprovisioning. Ensures predictable growth.

Continuously Available Desktops

Tight integration with VMware vSphere provides built-in native high availability and asynchronous replication for business-critical desktops. Optimize disaster recovery with Hitachi Data Ingestor and Hitachi Content Platform, to allow roaming file services and always-on desktops for mobile workforce. Supports business continuity.

Cost Reduction

Lower VDI costs by adopting Hitachi UCP HC to leverage commodity components, without dedicated equipment. Facilitate provisioning, administration and resource management with

an easy-to-use interface, without introducing new software. Reduce power consumption and storage density, to improve ROI. Further lower VDI licensing costs with VMware Horizon 7 and UCP HC, with

a special rolled-out scheme. Redeploy capex and opex savings to pace the innovation.

Maximizes ROI by reducing acquisition costs and operational expenses.

Accelerate Deployment

UCP HC is easy to deploy and configure. Power on VMs in minutes for rapid delivery of desktops and applications. Add or remove resources without impacting user experience.

Supports speedy go-live for end users.

Take Control of VDI With Hitachi Vantara and VMware Solution

Industry-leading VMware Horizon 7 and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC deliver a high- performance VDI solution that ensures a consistent, native desktop experience. UCP HC empowers

you to take control of your VDI environment by streamlining the day 0-2 management of IT

infrastructure. Combining compute and storage into a single, compact, linearly scalable form factor, UCP HC appliances help to closely align the IT investments with business growth. With a wide variety of all-flash and NVMe flash storage options UCP HC delivers high performance at any scale.

Optimized licensing for virtual desktop with UCP HC helps you maximize the returns from your VDI initiative. Embrace traditional VDI with application and compute resources deployed in-house with total control, or simply manage VDI setup from cloud while deployment and regular patch and upgrade is performed by your trusted partners Hitachi Vantara and VMware.

Next Steps

Empower your workforce with a modern desktop solution than accelerates innovation and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO). The integrated VDI solution of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform and VMware Horizon 7, delivers consistently superior performance for all users. The power combination of leading-edge hyperconverged infrastructure and industry-leading VDI software drives up user satisfaction with high performance across locations and across devices.

It is easy to deploy and administer from a single management interface. You have flexibility to run other workloads with VDI on the same IT stack, while meeting per-application SLOs.

Trusted VDI solution for all your  users.

High-performance desktops for excellent user experiences. Rapid desktop rollout with easy installation and management. Capital saved for other IT investments.

Choice of on-premises or cloud-managed VDI.