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continued from page 17 customers have no real insight and this can
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create serious issues in performance for the
most vendors push to achieve higher revenue users and applications in the VDI environment.
marks) and under provisioning (which would The StorTrends iDATA tool measures the exact
starve applications and create bottlenecks in usage of existing users and outputs the analysis
the new environment). The StorTrends iDATA so exact measurements can be used to pinpoint Enterprise and SMB IVR and call
tool allows a customer to be very comfortable and provision the exact amount of needed server
in making future purchases and changes to his compute and storage resources - avoiding over handling solutions that are:
or her environment by knowing their active or provisioning and under provisioning which is
hot data versus their inactive or cold data. This often costly and detrimental to VDI setups.
is a main pointer for the customer to determine Capacity Growth /Resource Requirements - Scalable
if their applications require All-Flash, Hybrid Customers that are running existing data storage
(mixture of SSD & HDD) or all Spinning Disk.
and that are looking to refresh their existing unit
VDI Requirements/ User and App Performance - many VDI implementations
are primary candidates to run the StorTrends iDATA tool. The StorTrends iDATA tool can Intuitive
fail due to underestimating the profiles of all
identify the performance in regards to reads
the users within the VDI infrastructure. The versus writes, the total IOPS and the throughput.
StorTrends iDATA tool can be ran on users This allows the customer to identify the type and Intelligent
existing setups and will identify the key metrics quantity of disk required for their refresh. The
to identify the user profile as a Light, Medium, StorTrends iDATA tool monitors the average
Power Standard or Power Heavy user. This daily growth of the data while monitoring
Cost Effective
allows for the proper selection of server compute the customer’s environment. This allows for
and storage (i.e. physical CPU, virtual cores intelligent growth planning to ensure the
CPU, memory, SSD capacity and quantity)
replacement data storage can scale properly with Efficient
to ensure the required performance. Without the company’s actual data growth requirements.
accurately measuring the existing user profiles,
Key metrics evaluated by StorTrends iDATA

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