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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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  • Dell PowerScale file storage

    Dell PowerScale storage is a scale-out NAS solution for any file workload. The PowerScale system is ideal for a wide range of file workloads (including large-scale enterprise VDI environments requiring a single file system namespace), high-performance computing (HPC), archiving, and infrastructure consolidation.

    When deploying a PowerScale storage system in a VDI environment, Dell Technologies recommends that you deploy a separate PowerScale system with a vSphere HA cluster or block. This structure provides the greatest scalability, resiliency, and flexibility for deploying and maintaining file services for the overall user pod. Because unstructured data-storage needs to grow over time, you can scale up the capacity of each PowerScale storage system independently with minimal user impact. In addition to scaling up each PowerScale chassis, you can also scale out a PowerScale system by using the Dell OneFS operating system. Thus, multiple PowerScale systems can provide a single volume and namespace that all user pods in a data center can access.

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