Kaviza

Kaviza VDI-in-a-box Shared-Nothing Grid Architecture Simplifies VDI

Kaviza is one-fourth the cost of alternatives

Kaviza's patent-pending Shared Nothing grid architecture eliminates the expensive datacenter infrastructure that traditional VDI needs. Kaviza consolidates all the functionality needed to provision and manage virtual desktops into a single virtual appliance that scales on inexpensive commodity servers similar to modern architectures like Google. Here are a few significant ways in which Kaviza redefines VDI to eliminate cost and complexity.

Kaviza does not require management servers, connection brokers or load balancers.
The picture below compares a production deployment setup using traditional VDI vs Kaviza. A traditional VDI deployment includes a pair of load balancers and connection brokers to to manage the desktop sessions and ensure high-availability, compute servers to provision and manage the desktops, and management servers to control the environment. All these moving parts add to cost and complexity.
Kaviza consolidates all this functionality into its virtual appliance - connection brokering, load balancing, high-availability, desktop provisioning and management are all built-in. This radically simplifies the setup and management, and lowers costs.

Kaviza does not require shared storage.
Traditional VDI solutions require shared storage, which in production settings, is typically a SAN with high-speed interconnects. This is expensive and complex - analysts estimate over 40-50% of the deployment cost lies in the storage.
Kaviza eliminates this requirement, and provides high-availability and scaling using inexpensive Direct Attached Storage (DAS). Simply run Kaviza on commodity servers, and the grid automatically load balances and ensures redundancy.

Kaviza does not require organizational or cultural change. Kaviza's management interface focuses on desktops and users, not virtualization or storage details. Desktop IT can setup and manage Kaviza, so no cultural change is needed. Traditional VDI requires collaboration across storage, server and desktop IT teams.

With Kaviza, you can start small, deploy in phases using current budgets. Kaviza runs on inexpensive commodity servers, and you can start with one or two servers and scale the deployment as needs grow.

Kaviza uses an open architecture without lock-in. Kaviza is an open architecture designed to give you flexibility in your platform choices. Kaviza is hypervisor agnostic — you can run Kaviza on different hypervisors. Currently, both VMware ESX, ESXi and Citrix Xenserver hypervisors are supported. Kaviza is also protocol agnostic — Kaviza virtual desktops support both RDP and the Citrix HDX technologies.

Kaviza has no centralized bottlenecks that cause "boot-storms" and other scaling issues in traditional VDI.
Kaviza's Shared Nothing VDI architecture does not have any centralized bottlenecks. With traditional VDI, the shared storage pool and connection brokers cause "boot storm" issues when many users simultaneously login. To overcome these issues, higher end SANs and high-speed interconnects may be needed, which further drive up costs. By eliminating these centralized bottlenecks, Kaviza's Shared Nothing VDI Grid architecture is fast and easy-to-scale. Simply add more servesr By eliminating centralized bottlenecks such as separate connection servers, management servers and shared storage pools, Kaviza's Shared Nothing VDI architecture avoids issues such as "boot storms" that are created in tradition

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