What type of storage do you recommend for Unidesk virtual desktops? Solid state?

With Unidesk, you can pick whatever type of storage you want to use – centralized like iSCSI, fibre channel SAN, and NFS.  Or local storage to leverage lower cost disk and new SSD technologies.  The most important thing to remember is that our virtual desktops and virtual appliances utilize traditional VMware VMDKs. The difference is that a Unidesk desktop has a small VMDK with basic boot files that allow each desktop VM to boot and connect to Unidesk’s Desktop CachePoint appliance running on the same host server. The file IO from the desktop is directed to the CachePoint appliance and this is where the layer sharing (image sharing) magic happens. The CachePoint appliance has a larger VMDK assigned to it (typically between 100 and 200 GB depending on the number and size of layers) and can be located on any vSphere-supported storage, whether centralized or local to the host.

The 2 keys that enable Unidesk to support local storage:

1. We are able to replicate layers between CachePoints to allow IT to update application and Windows layers once centrally on the Master CachePoint, and store the cached copies of each layer on local storage on each Desktop CachePoint.
2. We automatically replicate Personalization layers from each Desktop CachePoint back to a file server so all the desktops on a CachePoint can be fully recovered in the event of a local host or storage failure.