BriForum 2014 Boston - VDI High Availability and Why Persistent Desktops Are the Devil

Presented by Dan Allen & Nick Rintalan

As VDI has grown in popularity and adoption, keeping VDI constantly running with maximum uptime is becoming an important and difficult thing to do.  This session will discuss in detail how to make both VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop VDI environments highly available through a properly designed pod architecture.  Additionally, this session will cover how you can successfully move 80%+ of your VDI users to non-persistent VDI for maximum availability, scalability and ease of administration.  This session will also discuss why persistent desktops should be avoided like the plague and only used as a last resort for specific use cases that require it.