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IBM Utilizing Verde Virtual Bridges On KVM To Deliver VDI
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Just finished a webinar with Verde Virtual Bridges, which is being pushed by our local IBM sales representative.
A quick breakdown of Verde
- Built in High Availability and Load Balancing (DRS)
- Utilizes KVM hypervisor on bare metal hardware distributed via CentOS
- PXE boot or USB boot Thin-Client management where possible
- Offline desktops capable using SmartSync
- Ability to use Linux as a VDI target
- Active Directory, E-Directory or LDAP integration
- Ability to use clustered storage such as IBM GPFS
- Geographically separated “Branch Server” functionality
Overall, Verde seems to be incredibly similar to Citrix Provisioning Services. However, my concern is supportability. Aside from IBM, KVM and Verde seem to be invisible to the industry standard infrastructure providers like Citrix, HP and Dell.
Storage for Verde is still a blank spot with me, we were continually assured that high performance (SSD) disk would not be required since local disk is utilized. This presents an interested concept considering all of our blade configs only come with dual SAS drives resulting in 600 IOPS max. Leaving me wonder where the magic sauce is.
Unfortunately, I was left with more questions than answers, as most of the questions I asked were unanswered. I think the Verde engineer we were paired with, was more of a sales engineer, rather than high-end technical. Hopefully I can get back together with Verde and re-hash their product technically.
Currently Verde is only certified on IBM PureFlex aka FlexSystems