Learn how Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf improved IT management with innovations such as live migration enabled by Citrix XenDesktop and NVIDIA® Quadro® Virtual Data Center Workstation (vDWS).
Consolidation, maintenance, and upgrades are a necessary part of your infrastructure lifecycle management, making continuous uptime challenging. Live migration of GPU-accelerated virtual machines (VMs) running virtual desktops or compute-intensive server workloads was once a painful process, involving significant resource planning, testing, staffing, and scheduling. Today, it can be done with minimal disruption or downtime—with NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) solutions.
Live migration in NVIDIA GPU-enabled virtualized environments allows IT to move a running virtual machine from one physical server to another, with minimal downtime and no loss of data. During the workload migration, users continue to access the applications they need and compute-intensive server workloads are uninterrupted.
Some of the benefits of live migration include:
Server Updates On Your Own Time
"From a management standpoint, it’s a game changer. The Meltdown and Spectre BIOS came out yesterday and the next day, I was able to immediately make it a simple, during the workday, BIOS update. Normally this would be a 10-11 PM task on my own time."
-Jeremy Stroebel, IT Director, Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf
Continuous Uptime for Users
"XenServer patching was once a nightmare taking a month or requiring several hours of downtime. With the live migration feature from Citrix and NVIDIA, I can provide a great user experience and still have the flexibility to keep my environment more secure and stable. And I can even do it within working hours without downtime."
-Tommy Stylsvig Würtz Rasmussen, IT specialist, Holstebro Kommune
Healthy Servers, Happy Users
"XenMotion support on vGPU is very critical as we are a global company running almost 24 hours a day with a really short service window. Now I have the flexibility to take a host out of production without any issue. With today’s security issues like Meltdown and Spectre, this is a must have to keep our environment patched and safe!"
-Rody Kossen, Senior System Engineer, AWL-Techniek B.V.
Now your users can enjoy graphics accelerated applications on their virtualized desktops without interruption and compute-intensive workloads can continue to run with high availability. This means that IT can perform critical services like workload leveling, infrastructure resilience, and the upgrade of server software, without any VM downtime. Customers have reported faster and more efficient migration processes—taking as little as two seconds—with no interruption to end user workflow.
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