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Long-Term Performance and Value for University of Maryland School of Business

Q2 2020

With storage investments for its VDI environment reaching end of life, UMD asked Data Networks for refresh recommendations that would require minimal service downtime. To provide them with the long-term reliability, performance, capacity, and ease of management they sought, Data Networks engineers replaced the existing spindle-based SAN with a Dell EMC Unity 380F all flash array. They leveraged the University’s existing 10GbE switches for connectivity between the hosts and the new Unity storage array, as well as the school’s existing VMware vSphere licensing. The migration was accomplished all at once with minimal interruption in service availability.

Tags: Hi-Ed, higher education, virtual desktop