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VDI Validation Guide—VMware Horizon on VxRail and vSAN Ready Nodes
Executive Summary Test Environment Configuration and Best Practices
Validated hardware resources
Validated software resources
Virtual networking configuration
Management server infrastructure
High availability
VMware Horizon
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Management server infrastructure

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Management server infrastructure

  • The following tables lists the management server infrastructure components and their sizing recommendations:

    Table 3. Management server sizing
    Component vCPU RAM (GB) NIC Operating system + data vDisk (GB) Tier 2 volume (GB)
    VMware vCenter Appliance 2 16 1 290
    Platform Services Controller 2 2 1 30
    Horizon Connection Server 4 16 1 40
    SQL Server 4 8 1 40 210 (VMDK)
    File server 1 4 1 40 2048 (VMDK)
    VxRail Appliance Manager 2 8 1 32
    nVector Management VM 8 32 1 250
    NVIDIA vGPU License Server 2 4 1 40 + 5

    NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software License Server

    When using NVIDIA vGPUs, graphics-enabled VMs must obtain a license from NVIDIA vGPU Software License Server on your network.

    We installed the vGPU license server software on a system running a Windows 2016 operating system to test vGPU configurations.

    We made the following changes to the NVIDIA license server to address licensing requirements:

    • Used a reserved fixed IP address
    • Configured a single MAC address
    • Applied time synchronization to all hosts on the same network

    SQL Server databases

    During validation, a single dedicated SQL Server 2016 VM hosted the VMware databases in the management layer. We separated SQL data, logs, and tempdb into their respective volumes, and created a single database for Horizon Connection Server .

    DNS

    DNS is the basis for Microsoft Active Directory and also controls access to various software components for VMware services. All hosts, VMs, and consumable software components must have a presence in DNS. We used a dynamic namespace integrated with Active Directory and adhered to Microsoft's best practices.