Nexenta Passes VMware Rapid Desktop Appliance Certification

Nexenta
Systems Inc,
announced the completion of the VMware
Rapid
Desktop
Appliance
certification
through a combination of Nexenta software and the Cisco UCS platform.

At present, there
are 10 vendors in the VMware Rapid Desktop Appliance programme. Four
of the certified solutions offered by these participants are based on
NexentaVSA for VMware View deployments.

This deployment
includes Cisco UCS (with no other physical storage appliance
required) and VMware View. NexentaVSA for VMware View simplifies the
provisioning and deployment of virtual desktops and associated
storage. The combined Rapid Desktop-certified solution takes
advantage of an all-UCS configuration, which provides compute,
virtualisation, storage, and networking in one platform.

"The
Cisco UCS platform, with NexentaVSA for VMware View, is designed to
enhance traditional VDI deployment and address management
challenges,"
said Mason Uyeda, director, Technical and Solutions Marketing, End
User Computing, VMware. "VMware
is pleased to see this new offering from Nexenta and Cisco, which
delivers out-of-the-box unified networking, virtualisation, and
storage value to VMware View customers."

NexentaVSA for View
has VMware NAS VAAI support and is capable of increasing performance
and reducing the time taken to deploy VMs by up to 60%. It can be
deployed in a compute blade and/or rack combination, depending on
customer business requirements.

"VDI
projects can face cost overruns when it comes to storage deployments
and NexentaVSA for VMware View is proud of its ability to drive down
costs while providing end users with high performance computing,"
said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. "This
complete solution, with Cisco UCS, VMware View, and NexentaVSA for
VMware View, is capable of supporting almost any number of floating
and dedicated desktops, and can do so in an HA environment."

This combined
Nexenta and Cisco solution can scale without limits. Customers can
start small with a proof of concept with as few as 50 seats, and then
scale to support thousands of desktops within the same architecture
and with a similar per-unit desktop cost. NexentaVSA for VMware View
currently
lists at $35 per concurrent desktop,
which includes unlimited
local storage and 16TB of external storage for VDI workloads.