Nimble Storage Verified for Citrix Ready VDI Capacity Program

Nimble Storage, Inc. announced that its flash-optimized storage solutions have been verified as part of the Citrix Ready VDI Capacity Program Verified for Citrix XenDesktop.

The Citrix Ready VDI Capacity Program is designed to address the storage needs of customers who already have or are thinking about implementing VDI using XenDesktop. 

The program helps guide customers regarding VDI storage needs. It enables Citrix storage partners to test their solutions against a turnkey ‘VDI Capacity’ test environment that contains the necessary compute resources needed to generate a 750-user reference XenDesktop deployment, and thus demonstrating the appropriate amount of storage performance and capacity with a cost-efficient design. Partners whose technology satisfies the test criteria are determined to be verified as part of the Citrix Ready VDI Capacity Program Verified for 750 users.

“Our testing of the Nimble CS-Series array showed that a robust yet simple configuration is possible for VDI scenarios with up to 750 concurrent VDI desktop users,” said Greg Fox, director, Citrix Ready program. “By taking part in the Citrix Ready program, Nimble is helping customers make informed storage purchasing decisions when implementing VDI.“

Nimble Storage has developed a flash storage architecture engineered to address the industry’s most pressing storage issues: delivering better performance and capacity at a reasonable price; providing integrated protection with rapid backup and recovery; and, reining in storage complexity. The company’s products are based on its patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) that leverages fast read performance of flash and the cost-effective capacity of HDD drives. Nimble combines this flash-optimized architecture with InfoSight, a cloud based management service that delivers predictive support and operational simplicity through deep data analytics.

“A positive end-user experience is heavily dependent on storage performance, and picking the right storage for VDI is a critical factor for success. To meet storage performance requirements enterprises need a flexible storage solution that can cost-effectively handle peak loads of disruption as well as cater to the intensive write demands of VDI. Nimble provides such a solution,” said Radhika Krishnan, VP of product marketing and alliances. “Our participation in the Citrix Ready program is validation of our commitment to provide a highly responsive yet cost-effective end-user experience for Citrix XenDesktop.“

Nimble Storage will participate in the Citrix Synergy Conference taking place May 6 – 8 in Los Angeles, CA.

Analysis of the Nimble Storage testing and verification with Citrix XenDesktop