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VDI Design Guide—Azure Virtual Desktop on Dell Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
Solution Introduction Solution Architecture
Overview
Physical architecture
Software
Validation Sizing the Solution Backup and Restore Summary References Appendix A: Definition of performance metrics

Overview

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Overview

  • Each Azure Stack HCI cluster consists of between 2 and 16 physical, validated servers. The clustered servers share common configuration and resources. The cluster is registered in Azure and is managed as an Azure Arc resource.

    Azure Stack HCI combines the following:

    • Azure Stack HCI operating system
    • Dell Technologies validated hardware
    • Azure hybrid services
    • Windows Admin Center
    • Hyper-V-based compute resources
    • Storage Spaces Direct-based virtualized storage
    • SDN-based virtualized networking using Network Controller (optional)

    Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI is for customers who need desktop virtualization for applications that must remain on-premises for performance or data locality reasons.

    Solution architecture

    The following figure shows the stack overview of Azure Virtual Desktop on an Azure Stack HCI cluster with Windows Admin Center management and FSLogix profile container storage:

    Figure 2. Stack overview