Veloxum for VDI

Many organizations invested heavily in desktop virtualization (VDI) projects, such as VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and others, in order to achieve cost savings. But without continuous tuning of the server platforms that they run on, it is difficult to achieve these results.

Veloxum actively and continuously tunes VDI host server OS settings to deliver optimum performance and virtual-to-physical densities. Veloxum’s ACO uses patent-pending algorithms to calculate the optimum server configuration settings that improve all aspects of server-based performance. Veloxum acts as a continuous ‘tune-up’ service to automatically configure a VDI’s underlying OS without requiring any user intervention or specialists’ skills.

Benefits of the solution include:

• Determining optimal VDI host server OS settings, increasing server performance up to 50%
• Providing the performance to allow for higher VDI client-to-host ratios, decreasing CAPEX for servers and OPEX for servers’ power, cooling, and data-center footprints needs
• Actively and continuously updating OS parameters in dynamic virtual environments, such as load-balanced environments, keeping VDI performance at its peak
• Providing cross-silo insights into memory, CPU, storage, and networking OS metrics that affect VDI performance, allowing organizations to see the benefits of ACO
• Automatically remediating VDI performance issues without the need for additional staff or subject matter experts (SME’s), saving IT personnel costs

Veloxum performance increases allow more virtual desktop clients per host, without increasing the number of physical servers. This leads to dramatic cost savings in terms of deferred capital expenditures on new hardware and its associated support, maintenance, power and cooling requirements, reducing its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).