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Virtual Desktops

Cloud Solutions for Virtual Desktops

NetApp accelerates deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure on your choice of cloud, with the security, performance, and simplicity needed to enable digital workplace transformation.

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Real Benefits and Real Challenges

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and virtual applications offer the benefits of improved data security, increased employee productivity, simplified desktop operations, and reduced infrastructure costs. The cloud enables a digital workplace transformation by adding resource elasticity and by dramatically reducing the infrastructure burden of desktop management.

Moving to the cloud offers many benefits, but you must also consider some of the challenges including the migration of persistent desktops and home directory data from on-premises, the orchestration of virtual desktop deployments, supporting roaming users from cloud region to cloud region, vendor lock-in, and hybrid VDI requirements.

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NetApp Solutions Tailored to You

NetApp can help you capitalize on the benefits of VDI in the cloud while avoiding many of the challenges. We offer NetApp Virtual Desktop Service, a native VDI orchestration software service, best in class cloud storage and data management, as well as a fully managed VDI service for Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure.  As a service, it simplifies deployment and management of a VDI environment on your choice of infrastructure including AWS, Azure, Google, Citrix, or VMware.

NetApp offers a comprehensive solution for large enterprises with remote and branch offices by combining Virtual Desktop Service with Global File Cache to support the infrastructure necessary for shared user data at remote sites.

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Simplify Your WVD Deployment

You can eliminate the complexity of WVD deployments with NetApp Virtual Desktop Service. NetApp removes the barrier of PowerShell expertise by providing a simple Graphical UI to deploy, manage and maintain your WVD environment(s). NetApp Virtual Desktop Service simply funnels the hundreds of WVD setup options into a few key questions and then builds out your custom environment.

NetApp Virtual Desktop Service creates and orchestrates all the required components – host pools, session servers for multi-user Windows 10, and app groups that define user access to desktops and applications. With Virtual Desktop Service, you are just minutes away from deploying hundreds or thousands of new WVD VMs for a variety of end user use cases.

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The Best Cloud Storage for VDI

While there is a variety of VDI methods and vendors to choose from, they all require file shares for the users’ data and profiles. Azure NetApp Files and Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud or AWS are fast, simple to use, reliable and powerful file services in the largest clouds in the world, with industry leading integrated data management capabilities. Customers can now securely move their desktops to the cloud in a shorter amount of time and still ensure the desktops are performant, secure, available and economical.

Some organizations prefer to implement roaming profiles so that as workers move from one region to another, they always have access to their instance in a location close to them so that the user experience is still good. For roaming profiles, organizations need a way to move the profiles and data. NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides a powerful infrastructure with the APIs and partner integrations to simply transfer the end users profile and data from one cloud region to another.

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NetApp Features and Benefits

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Simplicity
  • Fully automate your WVD deployment on Azure
  • Simplify VDI deployments across public and private cloud
  • Simplify migration from on-prem to the cloud with robust Active Directory support
  • Highly Available storage by default
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Performance at the Right Price
  • Dynamically scale VDI infrastructure servers up or down according to user count
  • Scale storage performance and capacity up or down to optimize cost and application requirements
  • Desktops boot up in seconds rather than minutes with consistent and predictable performance
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Security
  • Leverage the Azure security service infrastructure, including integration with Active Directory.
  • Use the same NTFS ACLs to reduce chance of mistakes and security holes
  • Private end point in your VNET/VPC unlike other services which can be exploited by outsiders
  • Data is always encrypted at rest
  • Available in Gov Cloud for higher security requirements
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Automation
  • Eliminate the complexity of scripts for WVD deployments.
  • Provision and manage storage resources from your choice of orchestration tool and method (Ansible, Rest API, PowerShell, ARM template……)
  • Leverage native Azure and Google APIs to automate storage deployment
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Agility
  • Spin up workspaces in minutes.
  • Leverage the elasticity of cloud to deploy what you need in minutes when you need it and pay only for what you use.
  • Access your desktop from Any Device, Any Place at Any Time.
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Support for Roaming Desktops
  • Cloud Volumes support can be spun up in any cloud region
  • APIs to enable support for movement of user profiles and data

Customer Story

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  • Virtual Desktops in the cloud to provide a next generation workspace for users
  • One central location to control all third-party applications
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  • Simple to manage PaaS
  • Consistent and predictable performance for end user satisfaction
  • Control costs and utilization by controlling performance levels
  • Secure identity management via Active Directory (AD) in same manner as use on-premises
  • Secure private end point in vnet