Atlantis Computing has released a paper titled:"High-Performance Persistent Virtual Desktop Architecture Powered by NetApp FAS Array and Atlantis ILIO". The Paper which contains 27 pages covers a reference architecture provided by Atlantis Computing and NetApp offering a storage architecture to meet VDI IOPS requirements, allowing to provide more than 55 IOPS per desktop and 30GB per virtual desktop for 1,000 persistent virtual desktops using a dual controller FAS 2240-2 with Clustered Data ONTAP optimized with Atlantis ILIO software. Testing was done using the Login VSI benchmarking suite.
The paper covers the following sections:
- Introduction and scope
- Architecture
- Atlantis ILIO Storage Optimization Overview
- NetApp FAS2200 Series Overview
- Performance and Validation Testing
- Test Results
- Configuration Best Practise
- Storage Sizing Guidance
- Summary
- Acknowledgements
- References