vSTAC VDI P Cubed™ Appliance

VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE (VDI) STARTER APPLIANCE

P Cubed™ – the all new VDI Starter Appliance from Pivot3

A self contained ready-to-deploy starter appliance for 50-100 desktop production pilots which includes pre-configured trial licenses for essential VDI software.

vSTAC VDI Appliances deliver high-performance compute and storage resources that scale as appliances are “stacked” together. Each vSTAC VDI Appliance contributes a high-performance vSphere environment along with scale-out SSD and disk storage resources. Three to eight appliances can be stacked and dynamically expanded as demand grows.

Key Features

High-performance VDI Platform

Users can run over 100 virtual desktops on each vSTAC VDI Appliance and seamlessly scale VDI compute, storage and network resources linearly by adding vSTAC VDI appliances. Storage performance is automatically load-balanced across appliances to ensure that virtual desktops receive the optimal resources, regardless of which appliance they are running on.

Simplify VDI Design

With the Pivot3 VDI Configuration Tool users can configure a VDI deployment in minutes. This simple planning utility converts a few user inputs regarding desktop virtualization user profles into a proposed infrastructure configuration complete with ROI calculations.

Speed VDI Trials

The vSTAC appliance model allows customers an opportunity to start with a low entry cost, single pre-configured appliance as a pilot and then add additional appliances dynamically as they scale out more production desktops. This means that there is no discontinuity in architecture from pilot to production and a predictable ROI.

Scale-as-you-grow low entry cost appliance model

Simple plug-and-play appliance model consolidates server and storage resources into a single hardware platform to reduce power, cooling, rackspace and cost over systems with separate physical servers and physical storage. Allows for simple future planning with the same cost basis as one hundred virtual desktops or ten thousand virtual desktops.

Eliminate Storage as a VDI Barrier

VDI has a set of demanding storage requirements that can be daunting to administrators familiar with desktops and servers. Pivot3 has found a way to bypass the steep learning curve on storage and avoid the heart-stopping investment required by over-provisioned conventional SAN or NAS systems. The appliance approach allows administrators to respond quickly to changing desktop demands in the field.

Advanced Architecture

Unlike other virtual storage appliances, the Pivot3 vSTAC VDI is not capacity or performance limited. The product has been designed from the ground up to provide for linear and seamless scalability and maximum capacity and performance throughput by eliminating the use of unnecessary meta-virtualization layers and data movement, as well as capacity draining file replication.

Proven Approach

The Pivot3 stackable appliance model has been proven in hundreds of customer installations and thousands of appliances where there has been a need to deliver a cost effective solution to a customer with little or no SAN storage expertise.