While planning your investment in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) it's necessary for organizations to consider: if it is really required, analyzing the profit margin, and what parts of their infrastructure to virtualize, etc. Another important aspect to consider is - how the journey of migrating desktops to cloud impacts the application delivery model from Vdi Service Provider’s point of view. As a result, I think it merits taking this conversation one step further to discuss what you should consider from an application delivery standpoint when moving to VDI. Let's continue our discussion regarding 7 building blocks of an economical application delivery model.
1. Determine the value chain: Though this appears like a no brainer, it is necessary to identify the enterprise value chain right from the data center to the end-point, wherever the end-user consumes the application.
What this means: With various application desires for various categories of users i.e. mobile users, dealings users, similar mobile users, etc., it demands distinctive all the key elements within the essential path for every of the user segments.
2. Manageability of applications: Understanding the value-chain must be closely followed by manageability at the component level. While data centers and networks are managed as a part of keeping-the-lights-on operations, end-points have nearly always been monitored and managed solely to the extent of provisioning device time period. For all practical purposes, their needs to be the output mechanism that doesn’t impact application performance. Desktop virtualization helps here; it permits you to push the envelope for end-to-end manageability of application performance.
What this means: VDI brings manageability to every part of the applying delivery value chain; however, manageability paradigms modifies
3. Monitoring: Monitoring here is reference to a proactive approach to ensuring optimum application performance to end-users. At present, organizations monitor performance at the component level without really monitor the service level that they cumulatively contribute towards.
What this means: This comprehensive monitoring ensures that your systems are engaged to proactively determine problems before they hit users. thus application delivery is optimized at the end-user level.
4. Skills realignment: usually enterprise design and its elements work in silos where each part incorporates a specialist managing and watching it. What this usually results in is coverage of best part level performance while not really accounting for the additive impact of their performance on service levels. So while specialists are necessary, it becomes crucial from a VDI standpoint to have a sturdy incident diagnostic team to enhance it.
What this means: While the end-user never had a custodian/specialist in charge of its optimal functioning and uptime, the incident diagnostic team becomes the umbrella organization that covers it.
5. Centralization: This is among the most elementary building blocks of VDI from an application delivery standpoint. One that ensures that your support skills are centralized provided that the intelligence has captive to a central location and end-points are dumb terminals.
What this means: The application delivery is the ability to manage, monitor and support applications, their uptime/downtime centrally.
6. Security: In traditional application delivery framework, isolated security measures are created for data centers (perimeter security approach for data in store), networks (encryption for data in transit) and end-points (role primarily based restrictions and controls for data access). VDI provides heaps of inherent security benefits; one of the key advantages is to ensure data doesn’t travel outside of data center. It is important that data doesn't leave the data center, therefore security controls need to be realigned by creating different zones within the data center.
What this means: app delivery is the ability to style a cohesive security framework for application delivery while saving prices.
7. Network Architecture: Designing network architecture has always been tricky with traditional desktop setups because it needs designing for peak traffics while ensuring control over the peak to average to average ratio. VDI helps in reducing the peak to average ratio drastically and optimize network architecture with deterministic bandwidth requirements. VDI needs carefully planning QoS within your networks – as it replaces heaps of asynchronous network traffic with interactive ones.
What this means: this means a much more efficient and price effective network that intelligently prioritizes the traffic based on its needs and is far less dependent on traffic loads.
If you’ve got these basic 7 pillars addressed, your VDI implementation approach can be considered as evolved and would guarantee application delivery is optimized to produce the best end-user experience.
1. Determine the value chain: Though this appears like a no brainer, it is necessary to identify the enterprise value chain right from the data center to the end-point, wherever the end-user consumes the application.
What this means: With various application desires for various categories of users i.e. mobile users, dealings users, similar mobile users, etc., it demands distinctive all the key elements within the essential path for every of the user segments.
2. Manageability of applications: Understanding the value-chain must be closely followed by manageability at the component level. While data centers and networks are managed as a part of keeping-the-lights-on operations, end-points have nearly always been monitored and managed solely to the extent of provisioning device time period. For all practical purposes, their needs to be the output mechanism that doesn’t impact application performance. Desktop virtualization helps here; it permits you to push the envelope for end-to-end manageability of application performance.
What this means: VDI brings manageability to every part of the applying delivery value chain; however, manageability paradigms modifies
3. Monitoring: Monitoring here is reference to a proactive approach to ensuring optimum application performance to end-users. At present, organizations monitor performance at the component level without really monitor the service level that they cumulatively contribute towards.
What this means: This comprehensive monitoring ensures that your systems are engaged to proactively determine problems before they hit users. thus application delivery is optimized at the end-user level.
4. Skills realignment: usually enterprise design and its elements work in silos where each part incorporates a specialist managing and watching it. What this usually results in is coverage of best part level performance while not really accounting for the additive impact of their performance on service levels. So while specialists are necessary, it becomes crucial from a VDI standpoint to have a sturdy incident diagnostic team to enhance it.
What this means: While the end-user never had a custodian/specialist in charge of its optimal functioning and uptime, the incident diagnostic team becomes the umbrella organization that covers it.
5. Centralization: This is among the most elementary building blocks of VDI from an application delivery standpoint. One that ensures that your support skills are centralized provided that the intelligence has captive to a central location and end-points are dumb terminals.
What this means: The application delivery is the ability to manage, monitor and support applications, their uptime/downtime centrally.
6. Security: In traditional application delivery framework, isolated security measures are created for data centers (perimeter security approach for data in store), networks (encryption for data in transit) and end-points (role primarily based restrictions and controls for data access). VDI provides heaps of inherent security benefits; one of the key advantages is to ensure data doesn’t travel outside of data center. It is important that data doesn't leave the data center, therefore security controls need to be realigned by creating different zones within the data center.
What this means: app delivery is the ability to style a cohesive security framework for application delivery while saving prices.
7. Network Architecture: Designing network architecture has always been tricky with traditional desktop setups because it needs designing for peak traffics while ensuring control over the peak to average to average ratio. VDI helps in reducing the peak to average ratio drastically and optimize network architecture with deterministic bandwidth requirements. VDI needs carefully planning QoS within your networks – as it replaces heaps of asynchronous network traffic with interactive ones.
What this means: this means a much more efficient and price effective network that intelligently prioritizes the traffic based on its needs and is far less dependent on traffic loads.
If you’ve got these basic 7 pillars addressed, your VDI implementation approach can be considered as evolved and would guarantee application delivery is optimized to produce the best end-user experience.
