Case Study: Minara Resources achieves 3.2× faster VDI read response and 87% read offload with Infinio

Minara Resources digs up VDI performance

Minara Resources runs the 24/7 Murrin Murrin nickel‑cobalt mine with about 1,000 staff and uses VMware VDI to support thin/zero clients in a harsh environment. After deploying roughly 750 persistent desktops (about 300 concurrent), users began seeing sporadic slow response, boot‑storm delays and high read‑latency spikes that strained their NetApp storage and degraded the VDI experience.

Minara deployed Infinio’s server‑side, content‑deduplicated read cache across the VMware cluster, bringing data closer to workloads and offloading 87% of reads. The change cut read response times by about 3.2x, smoothed latency spikes, integrated with existing NetApp PAM cards (PAMs dedicated to production), and delivered immediate, sustained improvement in desktop performance without a costly storage overhaul.

Minara Resources

Nathan Manzi

Systems Engineer