Recently I was privileged to have the chance in sharing another VMware VDI success story. Sumit Sehgal joined me to share his experiance's and success deploying a VMware VDI based solution at Riverside Medical Center. This continues the trend of VMware VDI success in the Health Care space as the increased flexibility and mobility provided by VDI benifits Doctors and Nurses across the globe.
Here are some of my favorite highlights:
VDI Client Devices - Once again, repuroposed PC's leads the charge. Riverside started down their VDI path converting existing PC's into VDI clients using a PXE booted image from the network. As the PC's are decommissioned they are replaced with thin clients .
Faster Recovery From Failures - Recently a blade power supply failure resulted in the disruption of 32 virtual desktops. With the implementation of VMware HA these virtual desktops were back up and running in 4 min 33 sec. That was faster than Sumit was able to remotely connect once he received the notification or the failure.
Cost Savings - Expected a 6-9 VM per core consolidation. Acheived 11-12. Reprovisioned old PC's as thin clients eliminating traditional desktop lifecycle. Labor costs reduced by improved process.
In addition to these highlights Sumit shares with us some of his real world experiance regarding their storage design. In addition he highlights how they were able to leverage memory over-commit to increase the overall consolidation ratio. The entire webinar can be found here.
Riverside Medical Center Saves Time and Money on PC management with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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