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TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT MAKES THE GRADE WITH 1,500 VIRTUAL DESKTOPS

February 27, 2014

Robert KeithDirector of Technology

Rem MascardoNetwork System Engineer

About Waxahachie Independent School District

Located in Waxahachie, Texas 30 minutes south of Dallas and 40 minutes southeast of Fort Worth

Public School District

Our IT Team 3 Engineers and 6 Technicians

Who We Serve: 8,000 students 1,200 faculty and staff 1 Pre-Kindergarten School 6 Elementary Schools 2 Junior High Schools 3 High Schools

What Were Our Drivers for VDI? Physical PCs = IT Nightmare

Countless use cases, different from classroom to classroom and even machine to machine Business Office, front desk clerks, lab settings, Principals, non-instructional

positions, etc. Multiple labs on each campus

Updating physical machines was time-consuming and inefficient Constantly having to deploy apps and updates to meet teacher needs

Expand education beyond the walls of the classrooms (support BYOD!) Lay foundation for new educational standards and computer-based

testing Provide the best possible educational experience for the community

Our First Attempt at VDI

900 non-persistent desktops

Mix of thin and zero clients and repurposed PCs

VMware Horizon View for connectivity

Cisco and IBM blade servers for hosting

Grading Our First Attempt: C

Connectivity and protocol performance

Mobile device and client support

IO performance and uptime / user experience

Keep pace with application change requirements

Configure desktops for different use cases with 1

image

Manage VDI with internal IT headcount

AAC-D-F-C-

Decision Point

Had to buy new PCs for teachers who had bad VDI

experience

Two choices moving forward:

Fix VDI management and storage issues and try again

Abandon VDI and go back to physical PCs

VDI Has Too Many Benefits Not to Try Again!

VDI Management Solution: Unidesk Easy, all-in-one platform for desktop provisioning, app virtualization, and image

management Simple enough that no longer needed 3rd party consultant 1 gold image to patch for all desktops and all use cases Layer apps and app updates in minutes, and rebuild desktops at any time Push applications to teachers at a moment’s notice

VDI Storage Solution: Pure Storage All-flash storage array Virtual Desktop uptime of 99% 11:1 data de-duplication for outstanding desktop density Greater efficiency to keep our ever-ballooning data manageable Latency is less than one millisecond – incredible user experience

Our VDI “Retest” – The Numbers

900 virtual desktops Mostly labs, some staff 15 application layers 1 Windows 7 gold image 1000 mobile devices 5 TB Pure Storage array 75 desktops per Blade

NEW

NEW

Benefits of Unidesk Provision non-persistent desktops (labs) or

persistent desktops (faculty/staff) with one solution One Gold Windows OS layer for easy patching Fast and easy application virtualization

Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF Editor, Audacity, Movie Maker, Doceri, ActivInspire, Skyward, Java SDK, Firefox, Google Chrome, drivers, plug-ins

70% less storage: persistent and non-persistent Rollback “Personalization” layer for instant break/fix Installs quickly as vSphere appliances Integrates with VMware Horizon View

The Magic of “Layers”

5 TB all flash array Only 56% used to date for 900

desktops Equates to only 3.1 GB per

desktop 11:1 data reduction

Made even better combined with Unidesk’s storage reduction

Provides consistent, seamless uptime

Incredible end user experience with <1 millisecond latency

Benefits of Pure Storage

Grading Our Retest: Straight As!

Connectivity and protocol performance

Mobile device and client support

IO performance and uptime / user experience

Keep pace with application change requirements

Configure desktops for different use cases with 1

image

Manage VDI with internal IT headcount

AAAAAA

VDI with Pure Storage, Unidesk, and VMware Horizon View is a success

Adding 600+ more virtual desktops to the current 900

Repurposing old PCs for future virtual machines

Supporting BYOD for students Establishing a foundation for upcoming

educational standards and computer-based testing

VDI Adoption Now Accelerating

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Q&A and Next Steps Connect with Robert

Keith rkeith@wisd.org www.linkedin.com/pub/ro

bert-keith/27/38/6a0 @wisdtechnology

Connect with Rem Mascardo

rmascardo@wisd.org www.linkedin.com/pub/re

m-mascardo/4b/bb7/80

Learn more about Web site: www.unidesk.com Bi-weekly technical webinar

Date: Tuesday, March 4 at 2pm ET Register: www.unidesk.com/demo

Learn more about Web site: www.purestorage.com Product overview:

www.purestorage.com/flash-array