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Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying VMware View 4.5

on VMware vSphere 4.1 with Dell EqualLogic Storage

RAWC

Provides the RAWC system configuration and management GUI for

desktop workload simulation

Controller

RAWC Session Launchers Automates launch of View VDI client sessions

Microsoft SQL Server Provides database for vCenter and View Composer

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Email server for Outlook clients running on each desktop

We used Dell PowerEdge M610 blade servers and Dell PowerConnect M6220/M6348 Ethernet blade

switches within a Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure as the host platform for the test

system components. Figure 2 shows how we distributed the virtual machines running the core View

components and the additional simulation components on our M610 blade servers.

Figure 2: ESX Blade Clusters

The sixteen PowerEdge M610 Servers were subdivided into three ESX clusters. Three M610 blade

servers were combined as the infrastructure cluster. The infrastructure cluster provided an aggregate

computing power of 57.6GHz and 388GB of memory. Thirteen M610 E5680 blade servers were split

into two different ESX clusters for hosting View client VMs: the first with 8 hosts

Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Code. See

Workload Simulation for Virtual Desktop Reference

Architectures

and the second with

5 hosts. The two View Client VM clusters provided an aggregate computing power of 520GHz and

1248GB of memory.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-WP-WorkloadConsiderations-WP-EN.pdf

Due to View Composer limitations in View 4.5, VMware HA clusters in a View infrastructure are limited to a

maximum of 8 ESX nodes. For more information, see the vSphere Clusters section of the VMware View Online

Library: http://pubs.vmware.com/view45/ol