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Ask the Experts

• Adding SSD to a tiered storage system

  Find out whether you need to invest in new management software when adding SSD to a tiered storage system in this Expert Response from Marc Staimer.  Continue Reading

• VDI infrastructure and storage platform choices: SAN vs. NAS, Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI

  Read up on how SAN and NAS compare in terms of their ability to support a VDI infrastructure, and then drill down for details on Fibre Channel SAN vs. iSCSI SAN.  Continue Reading

• Solving VDI performance issues with flash cards, SSD and software options

  Find out how to address VDI performance issues that occur during boot storms or login storms with flash cards; SSD; or software solutions, such as Atlantis Computing’s ILIO.  Continue Reading

• How to perform VDI storage sizing

  Find out what factors are involved in VDI storage sizing, including typical desktop operating system, version numbers, application virtualization and user data.  Continue Reading

• Persistent VDI vs. non-persistent VDI and their effect on storage resources

  Learn the difference between persistent VDI and non-persistent VDI, how they affect storage and which one carries advantages in terms of capacity and backup requirements.  Continue Reading

• Storage’s impact on the VDI user experience

  Learn about the storage demands in a VDI environment and why a consistent I/O response time is so critical to the VDI user experience and get a ballpark estimate for IOPS requirements.  Continue Reading

• Consumer SSDs vs. enterprise SSDs

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, discusses the differences between consumer and enterprise SSDs in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• What you need to know about SSD TRIM

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, explains what you need to know about SSD TRIM in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• Why you should care about SSD program/erase cycles

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, explains why you should care about SSD program/erase cycles in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• SSD caching vs. tiering

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, discusses SSD caching vs. tiering for SSDs in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• SSD form factors today

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, discusses the variety of SSD form factors available today in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• SSD IOPS: Important metrics to consider

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, discusses two important metrics for SSD IOPS to consider in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• SSD cost vs. traditional hard drives

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, discusses SSD cost vs. traditional hard drives in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• Performance overhead for sub-volume automated tiering on SSDs

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, discusses the performance overhead of sub-volume automated tiering on SSDs in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading

• Primary storage deduplication and SSDs

  Dennis Martin, president of Demartek, discusses primary storage deduplication and SSDs in this Expert Response.  Continue Reading