Overview

This design guide describes the integration of vSAN-based appliances from Dell Technologies and VMware Horizon 8 brokering software to create virtual application and desktop environments. This architecture provides exceptional scalability, an excellent user experience, and empowers IT teams to play a proactive and strategic role in the organization.

Dell Technologies offers comprehensive, flexible, and efficient VDI solutions that are designed and optimized for the organization's needs. These VDI solutions are easy to plan, deploy, and run.

Dell Validated Designs for VDI offer several key benefits:

• Predictable costs, performance, and scalability to support a growing workforce
• Rapid deployments
• Rapid scaling, ready to serve enterprises of any size
• Dell Technologies support

All the Dell Validated Designs for VDI are configured to produce similar results. You can be sure that the vSAN-based appliances you choose have been designed and optimized for your organization's needs.

Next steps

Dell Technologies vSAN Ready Node R760 is a flexible solution for organizations of any size. It is a prevalidated configuration in a dense rack platform and only requires 2U of rack space. Additionally, this powerful server supports Density Optimized configurations for VDI and up to two NVIDIA A16 GPUs per node.

For additional resources and other VDI designs, see the VDI Info Hub for Dell Validated Designs. Your Dell Technologies solutions representative can also assist with further information and resources.