Solution Brief
GreenBytes vIO for Desktop Virtualization Scalable Virtual Storage Appliance, Configured In 5 Minutes The GreenBytes® vIO™ virtual storage appliance was designed from the ground up as a desktop virtualization solution, providing the full-featured persistent virtual desktops that users want, with the manageability, scalability and affordability that make it possible. The vIO enables IT administrators to increase the performance and improve the end user experience of a new or existing virtual desktop infrastructure by integrating GreenBytes’ patented zero latency inline deduplication software and a PCIe-based flash card, local SSD or flash-based storage controller with a VMware ESXi host. By moving the virtual desktop datastores to the vIO, inconsistent performance and crippling congestion become a thing of the past. Deployed and ready to present storage locally or externally via iSCSI or NFS in less than five minutes, IT can deliver persistent or non-persistent desktop images through their preferred desktop broker interface, increasing performance, driving down costs and avoiding user interruption while protecting existing storage and infrastructure investments.
“Large-scale deployments of VDI are rare at best because users find VDI at scale is outrageously expensive and complex. GreenBytes’ vIO for VDI ends both of these issues, allowing VDI deployments to scale massively, easily, and ridiculously inexpensively. I love this idea!"
Steve Duplessie Founder and Sr. Analyst
It’s Your Desktop, Virtualized. Everyone knows that storage-related IO is the principal bottleneck for desktop virtualization, and many vendors are promoting flash as the solution. But deploying flash without GreenBytes’ patented inline deduplication technology is cost prohibitive. GreenBytes has true, real-time, inline deduplication that enables the delivery of full-featured persistent virtual desktops, providing end users with a superior virtual desktop experience that is similar to the physical desktop they are most familiar with, all with 97% less storage space required. Competing solutions offer some of the components that enable desktop virtualization to work, but only GreenBytes’ vIO and IO Offload Engine combine all of the integral features into a single, easy to deploy and scale desktop virtualization solution. End user computing teams can continue to leverage their existing storage, working practices, management tools, and years of knowledge and experience.
Virtualization Winner
2012
vIO Feature Highlights • Provides IO Offload for 100 or more persistent or • Plug-and-play with VMware ESXi - no hardware non-persistent virtual desktops dependancies • Storage vendor and ecosystem agnostic
• Designed to work with a PCIe-based flash card, local SSD storage or flash-based storage controller
• NFS and iSCSI • Supports asynchronous replication for backup and recovery
• 97% less storage space required • Scalable, from departmental to cloud
“GreenBytes’ vIO is a best-in-class solution, truly delivering on its promise of meeting the most demanding desktop virtualization use cases. Their patented zero latency inline deduplication technology delivers exceptional performance, even during boot and provisioning activities, and is completely transparent to existing architectures. The product is mature, vendor agnostic, and can cost-effectively handle cloud-scale deployments while offering a full-featured virtual desktop experience, delivering on SLAs that end-users expect.”
Danny Allan Cheif Technology Officer
Smart, Purpose-Built
Pure Simplicity
Ecosystem Agnostic
Reduce the amount of flash required to support desktop virtualization by as much as 97% with GreenBytes’ patented zero latency inline deduplication.
Cloud-Ready, Plug-and-Play. Desktop Virtualization in 5 minutes. From departmental to cloud-scale.
No matter what infrastructure you have, your existing investments are protected.
How Does it Scale?
The Bottom Line The vIO is the simplest, smartest way to deploy desktop virtualization, from departmental to cloud-scale. All the cost, performance and user experience advantages of the IO Offload Engine are now available to smaller enterprises as well as cloud-scale service providers and OEMs with the vIO. Quick to install and deploy, with no racking, stacking or cabling required, simply introduce the vIO virtual storage appliance to the desktop virtualization infrastructure, enter a few configuration details, press play, and off you go. The GreenBytes vIO is uniquely simple, affordable, compatible and effective.
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The vIO is cloud-scalable and can size to any desktop virtualization environment by deploying multiple vIO instances. For 1000+ virtual desktop deployments, customers can also utilize the pre-configured IO Offload Engine hardware appliance that supports up to 4500 persistent desktops over 10GbE iSCSI or 8 or 16Gb Fibre Channel.
About GreenBytes, Inc.
GreenBytes delivers patented IO-Offload desktop virtualization solutions that maximize the effective performance and capacity of existing infrastructure to provide persistent, full-featured virtual desktops with the manageability, scalability and affordability required for cloud-scale VDI deployments. GreenBytes was founded in 2007 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
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