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VDI Design Guide—VMware Horizon 8 on Dell vSAN Ready Nodes with 3rd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
Executive summary Solution architecture
Solution architecture
Architecture overview
Enterprise solution pods
Scaling the solution
Key components Performance testing Design guidance Conclusion References Appendix A: Definition of performance metrics

Architecture overview

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Architecture overview

  • The following figure depicts the architecture of the validated solution, including the network, compute and graphics, storage, and management layers. This architecture aligns with the VMware Horizon block/pod design. A pod is made up of a group of interconnected Horizon Connection Servers that broker connections to desktops or published applications. A pod has multiple blocks to provide scalability, and a block is a collection of one or more vSphere clusters hosting pools of desktops or applications. Each block has a dedicated vCenter Server.

    The deployment option for this Dell Technologies VDI solution supports all cloning techniques available from VMware: full, and instant.

    Note: As of VMware Horizon 8 version 2012, linked clones have been deprecated and are no longer supported. For additional information, see the Release Notes for VMware Horizon Version 2012.

    A vSphere cluster can have a maximum of 64 nodes and 6,400 virtual machines (VMs) per vSAN enabled cluster. To expand beyond this limit, you can add clusters and balance the VMs and nodes across the new clusters.

    Figure 1. vSAN Ready Node R7525 systems with VMware Horizon