NJVC Achieves 'Unattainable' VDI Goal with Nutanix
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Nutanix Complete Block
- Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS)
- VMware ESXi
Tech Stack
- SAN-Free Architecture
- Fusion-io ioDrive PCI-e SSD
- Nutanix Heat-Optimized Tiering
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- National Security & Defense
- Professional Service
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Remote Asset Management
- Virtual Prototyping & Product Testing
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, NJVC is a leading technology services provider that delivers innovative solutions across rapidly evolving fields such as cloud services, cybersecurity, and data center services. Over the past eleven years, NJVC has grown from a small, niche company servicing a single client to a leading Department of Defense contractor. They work with intelligence, military, and federal agencies, as well as commercial entities with highly-secure IT requirements. NJVC employs 1,300 people, over 90% of whom hold security clearances. The company has leveraged its employees' knowledge and expertise to take on increasingly complex and technologically demanding jobs while retaining the agility and flexibility of a smaller organization.
The Challenge
To stay at the forefront in their industry, NJVC, a leading technology services provider for government and commercial customers, needed to demonstrate their capability to rapidly deploy VDI implementations. They decided to migrate their corporate desktops to a VDI solution and aimed to go live with the first phase within forty-five days. Nicholas Perjak, the NJVC Senior Systems Engineer, initially found the target date unrealistic. However, he accepted the challenge and began researching options. The team ranked industry players based on criteria like system performance, scalability, complexity, cost, high-availability, storage features, and network stack features. Most vendors excelled in one criterion by compromising another, but Nutanix offered all desired features and performance standards at a lower cost and with less complexity.
The Solution
NJVC chose Nutanix for their VDI implementation due to its SAN-Free architecture, which was ideal for their needs. They purchased a single 2U Nutanix Complete Block, comprising four nodes with dual Intel Xeon 5650 processors, 192GB RAM, a 320GB Fusion-io ioDrive PCI-e SSD card, 300GB of SATA SSD, 5x 1TB 7200rpm SATA HDDs, and 10GbE and 1GbE connectivity. Each node came pre-installed with VMware ESXi, Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS), and Nutanix Heat-Optimized Tiering. Nutanix provided dedicated support throughout the implementation process, allowing NJVC to provision and power on 85 VDI full clones in just twenty-five minutes. The boot-storm test results exceeded expectations, with 70 VDI desktops booting to the login screen in eight minutes and accepting client connections in fourteen minutes.
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