COMMON PITFALLSOF VDI PROJECTS

Learn How You Can Avoid These Pitfalls

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Why Move to VirtualDesktop Infrastructure (VDI)?VDI delivers well-documented benefits—but only if you can avoid the pitfalls.

Typical gains of VDI with VMware HorizonTM:

Source for statistics: 1 IDC, “Measuring the Business Value of VMware View,” December 2013.

305%

in ROI over five years

in labor cost per userper year vs. traditional PCs

per supported end user realized from lower device and IT support costs

8

$665 58%

reduction

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Eight Common Pitfalls of VDI Projects

Not involving users

Putting together the wrong team

The risk: A failure to understand user requirements leads to no buy-in from users.

The risk: Limited expertise leads to improperly designed desktop and application environments.

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Defining VDI use cases improperly The risk: Use cases that lack realistic performance requirements.

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Not conducting a pre-assessment The risk: A failure to understand workloads and their technical requirements.

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5Not properly optimizing thedesktop image

Not understanding impacts to the performance of other systems

The risk: Failure to meet user expectations for the desktop experience.

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Not developing an applicationdeployment strategyThe risk: Confusion over how to deploy, update, and manage applications.

Skipping or mismanaging thepilot project The risk: Improperly designed desktop and application environments.

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The risk: Performance bottlenecks stemming from bandwidth, storage, and I/O issues.

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annual savings

increase