Case Study: United States Department of Defense achieves rapid, highly scalable Desktop-as-a-Service deployment with Nutanix

US Department of Defense - Customer Case Study

A DoD IT agency needed a turnkey, scalable platform to host VMware Horizon View virtual desktops for the Pentagon and other facilities. With a new datacenter that had no servers or storage, the agency required a SAN-free, single-vendor solution that could be procured and deployed quickly, deliver strong desktop performance, and scale from a pilot of hundreds to thousands of users.

They chose the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform — a converged, scale-out appliance — which moved from procurement to production pilot in under a month and delivered exceptional desktop performance with simplified, single-point management. A 500-desktop pilot proved successful (≈55 power users per node; 4 nodes = 220 power users in 2U), reduced management overhead, and positioned the agency to deploy 4,000 desktops initially and scale to over 20,000 as needed.

United States Department of Defense

Alex Shiroma

Contractor Supporting DoD as a Senior Virtualization Engineer