We could probably write a whole book on storage considerations, designs, and options regarding your VDI environment. Along with the network, storage is probably among the most important areas to get right. The most obvious reason is that you don't want to end up with insufficient storage for your planned rollout, and secondly, failure to specify a storage solution that is going to meet your performance requirements will leave you with unhappy users and a failed project. This is particularly key when deploying Linked Clone desktops, as we will now discuss.

When it comes to storage, we need to look at two aspects: performance and capacity.