This section provides an architecture overview and guidance on managing and scaling a VMware Horizon environment with Dell PowerStore T Scalable All-Flash Storage.
Solution architecture
The following figure depicts an example of a unified storage architecture that is optimized to provide the appropriate resources for each component of the Horizon VDI solution to include Instant Clones, App Volumes, and Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM).
It shows the validated solution, including block and files resources provisioned to support the VDI desktops, application virtualization, and user profile and file data aspects of the architecture. In this example, the storage system is provisioned to support up to 8,000 users. Capacity planning and the performance requirements of the environment should be carefully considered to determine the appropriate PowerStore T storage system model and disk capacity for the environment being designed.