Case Study: TBConsulting scales VDI to 4,000+ desktops in weeks with Nutanix

TBConsulting Partners with Nutanix for Rapidly Expanding VDI Environment

TBConsulting, a managed IT services provider in the U.S. Southwest, faced rapidly escalating demand from clients—most notably a large healthcare customer that challenged them to scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) by an order of magnitude on short notice. Their legacy 3‑tier stack (EMC storage, HP blades, Cisco, VMware Horizon) was slow to procure and deploy, taking months to expand and requiring heavy management effort.

TBConsulting deployed Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (NX systems with Prism management), initially rolling out 24 nodes and later expanding to 100+ nodes including a 32‑node DR cluster. The solution enabled delivery of over 4,000 virtual desktops across 12 locations in weeks rather than months, cut desktop management effort by 5x, reduced datacenter footprint by about 4x, and simplified DR and replication between sites.

TBConsulting

Dieter Gable

CEO