Case Study: PEO Aviation achieves fast, scalable VDI and 90% space savings with Nutanix

At PEO Aviation, Nutanix for VDI Soars above the Competition

PEO Aviation, the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Aviation, needed a high-throughput, easy-to-manage server and storage platform to move a VMware Horizon View VDI pilot into production. The original Dell blade + EMC SAN pilot lacked performance and high availability, and lengthy, unpredictable federal procurement cycles made scaling and management difficult.

PEO Aviation deployed two Nutanix NX-2000 Complete Blocks — a converged compute-and-storage platform with Fusion‑io and SSD tiering — fitting in just 4U. The result: more than 100 virtual desktops running, a 45-minute install versus half a day, “night-and-day” performance improvements, ~90% less rack space than a blade+SAN alternative, lower power and operating costs, simpler scaling and management, and highly responsive support.

PEO Aviation

Alan Marett

Server Network Team Leader, PEO Aviation