vSTAC VDI™ Appliance

STACKABLE VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUC TURE ( VDI) APPLIANCES

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• Save up to 40% on CapEx and OpEx
• Eliminate storage as a barrier to deployment

Pivot3 vSTAC™ VDI Array

vSTAC VDI Appliances deliver high-performance compute and storage resources that scale as appliances are “stacked”
together. Each vSTAC VDI Appliance contributes a high-performance vSphere environment along with scale-out SSD and
disk storage resources. Three to eight appliances can be stacked and dynamically expanded as demand grows.

K E Y F E AT U R E S
Virtual Desktops
High-performance VDI Platform Devices - Windows PC, iPAD,
Thin Client, Zero Client
Run over 100 virtual desktops on each vSTAC VDI Appli- Licenses - Windows and View

ance. Storage performance is automatically load-

Gigabit Ethernet LAN
balanced across appliances to ensure that virtual desk- BRANCH/CAMPUS
tops receive the optimal resources, regardless of which
appliance they are running on. 10Gigabit Infrastructure
VDI Infrastructure
Simplify VDI Design and Speed VDI Trials Compute, storage and network
virtual desktop infrastructure
Management Server
Configure your VDI deployment in minutes instead of needed for the virtual desktops
above vCenter, View Manager
hours or days. The Pivot3 Configuration Tool directly View Composer

converts user profiles into an infrastructure configura-

tion. In the field, Pivot3 reduces support risk with an
appliance model that scales dynamically as new users vSTAC™ Array for VMware View
are added or user profiles change. CENTRAL OFFICE

Save On CAPEX and OPEX

Pivot3 consolidates server and storage resources into a
single hardware platform to reduce power, cooling,
rackspace and cost over systems with separate physical
servers and physical storage. Future planning is easy
because one hundred or one thousand virtual desk- Unique vSTAC OS Technology
tops have the same cost basis.
Pivot3 simultaneously runs virtual server environments
Eliminate Storage as a VDI Barrier and creates, protects and load balances IP SAN capacity
and performance across all the drives, network and
VDI has a set of demanding storage requirements that RAID controllers contained within the appliances in the
can be daunting to administrators. Bypass the steep vSTAC Array.
learning curve on storage and avoid the heart-
stopping investment required by over-provisioned
SAN or NAS systems.

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vSTAC VDI Appliance USER TYPES

Virtual Server Specifications Storage Specifications

• Dual six-core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5675 • 50 GB SLC write-cache flash
• 96 GB RAM • 150 GB SLC flash tier
• Two 10 GigE SFP+ for LAN and iSCSCI connectivity • 3TB Enterprise SAS tier
• Integrated VMware vSphere 5.0 hypervisor • All storage resources scale-out as appliances are added

vSTAC Specifications
vSTAC Scaling Specifications Storage Protection
• Stack 3 to 8 appliances in a vSTAC Array • No single point of failure
• Scale to hundreds of virtual servers • Distributed virtual sparing
• Scale to 24TB iSCSI SAN • Predictive drive sparing
• Scale to 8 parallel RAID controllers • Multi-path protection for iSCSI connections
• RAID 6x - 5 simultaneous disk events or
- 2 drives and an entire appliance
Virtual Server Protection
• RAID 6e - 3 simultaneous disk events or
• VMware vMotion™ – Migrate virtual servers
dynamically between vSTAC VDI appliances in a - 1 drive and an entire appliance
vSTAC Array • RAID 5e - 1 disk event or
• VMware HA™ – Failover virtual servers across - an entire appliance
vSTAC VDI Appliances. • RAID 1P - Triple Mirroring for SLC SSD Tier
• Optional VMware vCenter–Facilitates
administration Management Software
• vSTAC Manager configures vSTAC Arrays and runs on any PC
Dynamic Storage Scaling
• Dynamic logical and physical capacity expansion Alarms and Alerts
• Dynamic disk and RAID controller load-balancing • State-sensitive LEDs indicate drive events
• Dynamic iSCSI multi-path and load-balancing • vSTAC Manager indicates state changes
• SNMP MIB support for email notification

Configure your system on-line: VDIconfigurator.pivot3.com

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