vSTAC VDI P Cubed™ Appliance
VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUC TURE ( VDI) STARTER APPLIANCE
• Speed VDI pilots: 0 to VDI in under 60 minutes
• VMware Rapid Desktop Program Certified
• Fully-configured, ready-to-deploy pilot VDI environment
• Simply add vSTAC VDI appliances to scale beyond pilot
P Cubed™ - the VDI Starter Appliance from Pivot3
P Cubed is a pilot appliance that is actually the start of your full VDI production deployment! Out-of-the-box P Cubed
delivers a ready-to-deploy VDI environment for up to 100 production desktops including pre-configured trial licenses of all
essential VDI software.
K E Y F E AT U R E S
High-performance VDI Starter Platform
Users can run over 100 virtual desktops on a P Cubed starter
appliance. Scale VDI compute, storage and network resources
linearly by adding vSTAC VDI appliances which host 125 desktops
each. Storage performance is automatically load-balanced across
appliances to ensure that virtual desktops receive the optimal
resources, regardless of which appliance hosts the desktops.
High-availability
Enterprise class deployments, like VDI, demand data center caliber
availability and performance. Simple to deploy and use, vSTAC VDI
appliances meet these essential demands. Critical hardware and
software resources are fully protected, shared and redundant. From
dual power supplies and networking through to failover protected
storage and vSphere HA, a Pivot3 vSTAC VDI deployment is both
robust and reliable.
Speed VDI Pilots
The vSTAC appliance model allows customers an opportunity to
start with a low entry cost, single pre-configured appliance as a pilot
and then add additional appliances dynamically as they scale out
more production desktops. This means that there is no discontinuity
in architecture from pilot to production and a predictable ROI.
Scale-as-you-grow
Simple plug-and-play appliance model 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. Allows for simple future planning
with the same cost basis as one hundred virtual desktops or ten
thousand virtual desktops.
Overcome Storage as a VDI Barrier
VDI has a set of demanding storage requirements that can be
daunting to administrators familiar with desktops and servers.
Pivot3 has found a way to bypass the steep learning curve on
storage and avoid the heart-stopping investment required by
over-provisioned conventional SAN or NAS systems. The appliance
approach allows administrators to respond quickly to changing
desktop demands in the field.
Virtual Desktops
Devices - Windows PC, iPAD,
Thin Client, Zero Client
Licenses - Windows and View
Gigabit Ethernet LAN
MOBILE SECURE USERS
VDI Infrastructure
10/1 Gigabit Infrastructure
Compute, storage and network
resources needed for the mobile
secure desktop users above
SAN
Storage
Starter
Appliance
~1,000 Virtual
Desktops
C E N T R A L I Z E D D E S K TO P S
Patented Serverless Computing Technology
Pivot3 Serverless Computing allows organizations to deploy
scalable, shared storage resources that also integrate fault
tolerant virtualized servers without requiring the purchase of
additional physical server hardware. Pivot3 Serverless Storage
Appliances deliver a converged server virtualization infrastructure together with scale-out, load balanced, and highly
available SAN storage resources.
Software Licenses to Get You Up and Running
Pivot3 vSTAC VDI P Cubed includes trial licenses for:
VMware View
vCenter
vSphere
MS Windows Server 2008
v S TA C V D I P C U B E D S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
v S TA C V D I P C u b e d S P E C I F I C AT I O N S
vSTAC VDI and P Cubed Appliances
USER TYPES
Virtual Server Specifications
Storage Specifications
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• 50 GB SLC flash write-cache
• 12/24/36 TB Enterprise SATA/NL SAS
• All storage resources scale-out as appliances are added
Dual six-core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2630
128/256/384 GB RAM
Two 10/1 GigE SFP+ for LAN and iSCSCI connectivity
Integrated VMware vSphere 5.1 hypervisor
vSTAC Specifications
Storage Protection
vSTAC Scaling Specifications
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Stack 3 to 8 appliances in a vSTAC
Scale to hundreds of virtual servers
Scale to 288TB iSCSI SAN
Scale to 8 parallel RAID controllers
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No single point of failure
Distributed virtual sparing
Predictive drive sparing
Multi-path protection for iSCSI connections
RAID 6x
- 5 simultaneous disk events or
- 2 drives and an entire appliance
• RAID 6e
- 3 simultaneous disk events or
- 1 drive and an entire appliance
• RAID 5e
- 1 disk event or
- an entire appliance
Virtual Server Management
• VMware vMotion™ – Migrate virtual servers
dynamically between vSTAC VDI appliances in a
vSTAC
• VMware HA™ – Failover virtual servers across
vSTAC VDI Appliances.
• Optional VMware vCenter–Facilitates administration
Management Software
• vSTAC Manager configures vSTACs and runs on any PC
Dynamic Storage Scaling
• Dynamic logical and physical capacity expansion
• Dynamic disk and RAID controller load-balancing
• Dynamic iSCSI multi-path and load-balancing
Alarms and Alerts
• State-sensitive LEDs indicate drive events
• vSTAC Manager indicates state changes
• SNMP MIB support for email notification
— the vSTAC VDI Starter Appliance
Thin Clients
What’s in the Box
Connection
Server
• Production vSTAC OS
View
Composer
• Production ESXi v5.X
Scale-out SAN
View Manager
• Production vSTAC Manager
• Production 4X Server 2008
Parent
Image
• Eval 100 Pack View
• Eval Win 7 license
Active Directory
Linked
Clones
• Eval VMware vCenter
SQL Server
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