GreenBytes' GB-X Series of inline deduplication storage appliances have been certified as Citrix Ready and VMware Ready.
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Virtual operating system environments pose new and interesting challenges for IT architects and administrators. The benefits of VM/VDI are achieved if there is truly a reduction of system resources and management oversight required to configure and maintain these environments. GreenBytes GB-X Series appliances provide an exciting new alternative to help achieve a high-performance and economical platform for the deployment of virtual servers and desktops.
Key points for GreenBytes VM/VDI technology include:
- Reduce your storage needs with inline deduplication
- Quickly provision many instances of VM/VDI using the tools with which you are most familiar
- High-performance VM/VDI – without major disk-based storage investment
- Meet your uptime and recovery point objectives
Regardless of your underlying VM/VDI deployment technology, virtual desktop images can be one of the most inefficient data objects to store. In large part, operating system images are nearly identical and can benefit greatly from high-speed, inline deduplication from GreenBytes. By utilizing GreenBytes’ block-level deduplication over ubiquitous iSCSI and NFS storage protocols, customers can consolidate storage for desktop images by as much as 50-to-1.
Save Time Using Your Virtual Management Environment
With GreenBytes’ tight integration with VM/VDI system management tools like StorageLink from Citrix, there is a single administrative view for provisioning and cloning VM/VDI instances. Your system complexity and architecture is simplified by reducing the number of individual applications and systems requiring management and oversight.
What in the past took many tedious hours can now be accomplished in just a few minutes with the StorageLink management interface. Behind the scenes, the GB-X Series appliances can make many VDI instances in a fraction of the time over manually creating storage LUNs. In addition, array-based cloning and inline deduplication allows the GreenBytes VDI solution to create a large number of VM instances with data storage reduction of 90% or more.
High-Performance, Non-Blocking VM/VDI Performance
GreenBytes’ groundbreaking SSD accelerated cache architecture provides the performance necessary for large departmental VDI needs. Operationally, because of GreenBytes’ SSD-accelerated architecture, VDIs stored on GreenBytes GB-X Series appliances are highly responsive. Unlike traditional ‘spindle-count = performance’ storage architectures, the GB-X SSD cache acceleration will sustain IOPS to withstand boot-storm stresses with minimal footprint of conventional magnetic disk drives. GreenBytes combines ease of administration with minimal storage footprint and the IOPS of ten or more ordinary arrays in a single appliance.
Solutions with Citrix and Microsoft
GreenBytes supports key features of the Citrix virtualization portfolio to create added value for customers of Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop and Microsoft Hyper-V products. GreenBytes support for StorageLink V2.4 (Citrix Essentials for Xen and Hyper-V) empowers customers with the following key features:
- Provision the GB-X as an iSCSI storage array
- Central virtualization storage management, including partitioning, snapshots and data replication of the GB-X
- Accurate representation of storage resources, including efficiencies gained from deduplication and compression
- Reduce complexity and TCO, allowing you to leverage golden images across hypervisor environments on both XenServer and Hyper-V virtualization platforms
Additionally, the GreenBytes GB-X Series fully leverages the StorageLink Site Recovery features for XenServer and Hyper-V virtualization environments. Site Recovery is a single console solution for creating secondary off-site instances of virtualized operating environments and associated management of failover processes. Administrators can easily manage multiple aspects of the disaster recovery process, such as site designations or storage replication, through a single interface.