VDI Design Guide—VMware Horizon on Dell Three Tier Architecture

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  Solution introduction
  • Overview
  • Document purpose
  • Audience
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  What's new?
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  Design guide introduction

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  Architecture overview
  • Solution architecture
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  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
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  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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  Software
  • Overview
  • VMware vSphere
  • VMware Horizon
  • Horizon clone technology
  • NVIDIA vGPU

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  Overview
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  Login Enterprise performance testing process and monitoring
  • Load generation
  • Login Enterprise workloads
  • Desktop VM test configurations
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  Findings
  • Overview
  • Hardware configuration
  • Software versions
  • Test results and analysis
  • Login Enterprise Knowledge Worker
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  User density recommendations

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  Sizing and scaling
  • Overview
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  Sizing guidelines
  • Overview
  • Platform configurations
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • NVIDIA vGPU considerations
  • Sizing considerations
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  Scaling guidelines
  • Overview
  • Scaling out
  • Scaling up

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  Overview
  • Dell Avamar Virtual Edition
  • PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition
  • Other Dell Technologies data protection products

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  Overview
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  We value your feedback

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  VMware documentation
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  NVIDIA documentation