VDI-Optimized Storage dramatically improves boot performance and has greater VDI scalability. The benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage are significant savings in storage capacity, dramatically improved boot performance, greater VDI scalability, reduced administrative burden, increased granularity of backup and recovery, and higher, more predictable application service levels. This document explains the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related to storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and management visibility.