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About VDI-IOmark

VDI-IOmark.org was created as a coalition of industry organizations, vendors and IT users. The purpose of the organization is to create and maintain benchmarks that allow IT users to accurately and fairly characterize storage systems running VDI workloads.

The organization was created to meet three very real needs.  

  1. IT users have no cost effective way to compare storage systems running VDI workloads -- the only tools available requires a full scale-out Proof of Concept**.
  2. The industry lacks a standard for VDI workloads, resulting in conflicting claims of storage technology performance.
  3. Establishing VDI environments for pilot or proof of concept is very time consuming and resource intensive.

The VDI-IOmark was created over the past 9 months using input from experts in the VMware Performance Labs,  other leading storage benchmark environments plus guidance from vendors and end users.  The organization welcomes new participants and comments from the industry.

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** Benchmarks can be done configuring entire environments (servers, storage, networking and complete set of software) using LoginVSI or RAWC for VMware.