The local government of Venray, Netherlands, serving 43,000 residents, needed to implement VMware Horizon View VDI for its 450 employees but faced storage performance limitations with their existing SAN. Unable to afford a costly SAN replacement or expansion, they turned to Maxta's software-defined storage platform (MxSP) as a cost-effective alternative that delivered the required IOPS and enterprise features.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Avoided expensive SAN upgrade while protecting existing storage investment
- Eliminated single points of failure with data replication across virtualization cluster
- Simplified IT management through VM-level data services in single interface
- Improved performance with SSD read/write caching at lower cost than hardware solutions