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Leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS to Solve VDI Challenges Amid COVID-19vCORE Technology Partners
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October 2020
IntroductionMere weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across the globe found themselves scrambling to adapt to an entirely different work environment – one in which nearly everyone worked remotely.
With most offices closed, many organizations faced the enormous task of equipping workers for a new work-from-home paradigm. They needed to do so as quickly as possible, with no real advanced warning.
Seemingly overnight, virtual meeting platforms saw enormous increases in adoption. The staggering scale of the changes are clear to see in some of the figures cited by technology news source, the Verge, in an April 2020 article:
At vCORE Technology Partners, we have also seen Cloud and VDI demand shooting through the roof – and often in tandem.
In this briefing, we’ll examine a real-world example of how hybrid cloud technology from VMware can be used to accelerate the deployment and boost the performance of VDI, especially now, when it’s more important than ever.
Zoom meetings grew from 10M per day in Dec.
2019 to 300M by April 2020
Microsoft Teams experienced a
70% jump in daily active users – up
to 75M
Google added 3M new users each day and hit over
100M daily meeting
participants
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21242421/zoom-300-million-users-incorrect-meeting-participants-statement
Work From Home Accelerates Need for VDI Improvements
In March 2020, vCORE was working with a Fortune 500 insurance firm on a refresh of their aging Horizon VDI environment and had architected a 14-node VxRail cluster to leverage their existing VMware Horizon perpetual licenses.
At the same time, everyone was carefully monitoring the global health situation as the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and many nations, including much of the United States, shutdown their economies and closed public spaces like shops and offices.
Among many other challenges, these changes brought on the need for remote desktop access to keep processing insurance claims and the on-boarding of new customers. Naturally, the client’s VDI project became an even higher priority as the organization moved to a work-from-home policy.
While the project was initially planned as a simple hardware/software refresh with a timeline of 4-6 months, it suddenly required immediate action and results.
y •Only pay if they burst and for what they use•Low disruption for users
Understanding the client’s situation, the engineering teams at vCORE, VMware, and Dell Technologies quickly pivoted and architected a solution that met business needs, including:
• Fastest Time To Value (TTV) and onboarding of VDI workloads into new infrastructure
• On-demand scalability from 700 to 1300 users• Only pay if they burst and for what they use• Low disruption for users
Solution Architecture | VMC on AWS + Horizon
Rapidly Deployable, Effective Solution
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While the 14-node VxRail solution would have met many of the client’s requirements, waiting months for new infrastructure to land on-prem, be installed, and configured was unacceptable considering the urgency brought on by COVID-19. The demand was to have a TTV of weeks, not months.
As a result, despite the cloud solution being more expensive, the best option was a 16-node VMware Cloud on AWS cluster, leveraging one-year Reserved Instances (RI) with on-demand node expansion.
The client also needed a conversion of their existing perpetual licenses for VMware Horizon to Horizon Universal Licenses that can be used on Azure, IBM Cloud, VMC on AWS, Google Cloud VMware Engine, or on-premises.
In the end, vCORE, VMware, and Dell Technologies were able to stand up the new VMC on AWS and Horizon Universal environments in less than one month.
This enabled the client to support their work-from-home employees and their customers quickly and effectively.
Ready for a conversation about how a VMC on AWS solution can help your organization accelerate key initiatives and support the business? Contact the vCORE team to learn more.
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