Tegile Systems Earning VMware Horizon View Certification

Tegile Systems, Inc. announced that its Zebi HA2300 storage array has been certified for the VMware Rapid Desktop Program for Horizon View 5.2 and has been listed in the VMware Compatibility Guide as a solution that is designed to provide organizations with a way to deploy desktops based on View 5 and above.

Appliances included in the VMware Rapid Desktop Program are certified, converged and scalable solutions that have been validated for their ability to deliver predictable units of performance and user experience, helping organizations take the guesswork out of VDI and allow small, medium and large-scale IT organizations to get up and running quickly and cost-effectively. This is the second array from Tegile to earn certification as part of the VMware Rapid Desktop Program and one of the first from any vendor to do so as part of the Horizon View 5.2 release.

The reference architecture utilized for certification included a Zebi HA2300 and Cisco B200 M3 Blade servers running VMware ESXi 5.1 to host the desktops and infrastructure VMs. Tegile deployed 200 VMware View-based full clone Windows 7 desktops and ran a realistic load generator with VMware View Planner the simulated 200 users performing common computing tasks.  The majority of user application interactions had a response time of 0.65s or less – passing is less than 1.5s – and a massive 95% reduction of physical storage resulting from the high-performance inline data reduction capabilities delivered by the Zebi array.

“This certification is an extension of our strong technology partnership with VMware and our joint effort to solve the performance and economic challenges that come with VDI deployments,” said Rob Commins, VP marketing, Tegile. “By certifying our Zebi storage array with VMware Horizon View, we are able to deliver to organizations a VDI solution that they can quickly implement, easily manage and afford at a low cost per desktop.  And as good as our reference architecture performed, we believe that real-world results can be even more impressive with a single HA2300 supporting a few hundred desktops, helping organizations take advantage of under-utilized capacity and performance for an even lower cost per desktop.”

Zebi HA2300 everage the performance of SSD and low cost per terabyte of high capacity disk drives to deliver five times the performance and up to 75% less capacity required than legacy arrays. Tegile has architected the performance benefits of SSDs throughout the data path, giving every application a performance boost. One-click VM optimized storage creation can deploy hundreds of VMs and desktops in minutes, not hours. Built-in backup and data replication via unlimited snapshots, cloning and instantaneous restores keeps VMs and desktops protected.