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VDI Design Guide—VMware Horizon on Dell Three Tier Architecture
Introduction Solution Architecture
Architecture overview
Solution architecture
Physical architecture overview
Servers PowerEdge R660 server PowerEdge R760 server PowerEdge R860 server Dell Technologies Validated Design VDI-optimized configurations NVIDIA GPUs Physical network components
Storage
Dell PowerMax Dell PowerStore Dell PowerVault File workload Dell PowerStore T storage Dell PowerScale file storage Data center infrastructure Client components
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Overview VMware vSphere VMware Horizon Horizon clone technology NVIDIA vGPU
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Storage

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  • Dell PowerStore T storage

    Dell PowerStore T storage is simple, unified storage that enables flexible growth with intelligent scale-up and scale-out capabilities and public cloud integration. This storage system is ideal for general-purpose NAS or SAN mixed workload consolidation, smaller file workloads (including small to midsized VDI environments), and transactional databases.

    Dell Technologies recommends that you deploy a separate PowerStore T storage system with a vSphere HA cluster or block when you are deploying PowerStore T in a VDI environment. Each PowerStore T system can scale up to four appliances per cluster. This structure provides the greatest scalability, resiliency, and flexibility for deploying and maintaining file services for the overall user pod. As unstructured data storage needs to grow over time, the capacity of each PowerStore T storage system can be scaled up or out independently with minimal user impact. If you choose to deploy alternative architectures to those that are suggested in this guide, carefully consider the tradeoffs.

    For guidance with selecting an appropriate PowerStore T storage solution for your file workload requirements, see Dell PowerStore on the Dell Technologies PowerStore website.