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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI Reference Architecture for Dell EMC PowerFlex family
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Hardware recommendation
PowerFlex storage provisioning
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PowerFlex storage provisioning

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PowerFlex storage provisioning

  • The PowerFlex cluster allows you to create two types of Storage Pools:

    • Medium Granularity (MG) –This storage pool is recommended for VDI. MG storage pool volumes provide the supreme I/O performance with the least latency to the virtual machines and applications.
    • Fine Granularity (FG) –This storage pool is recommended where space efficiency is more valuable than performance, it enables the compression feature to reduce the size of the volume data depends on the data compressible and allows it to use by the other volumes.

    The following tables compare both the features:

    Table 3.              MG vs FG comparison

    Feature

    MG storage pool

    FG storage pool

    Volume provision type

    Thick and thin

    Thin

    Space allocation block

    1 MB

    4 KB

    Compression

    False

    True

    Supported drives

    All-flash

    All-flash

    NVDIMM required

    False

    True