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Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying VMware View 4.5
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• Maintain less than 20ms disk latency under any VDI workload;
• Provision, on average, a minimum of 2GB storage per linked clone delta disk.
3.4 VMware View Configuration
The VMware View configuration settings used during all performance characterization tests are shown
in Table 3 below.
Entity Description
Pool Definition
Desktop pool type Automated Pool
User assignment
• For
persistent desktop tests: Dedicated with
automatic assignment
• For non-persistent desktop tests: Floating
vCenter Server
(Desktop VM provisioning type)
View Composer linked clones
Pool Settings
Remote Desktop Power Policy Ensure desktops are always powered on
Default Display Protocol PCoIP
View Composer Disks
Persistent Disk
• Persistent Desktop tests: All changes –
writes to
operating system, temporary system and application
data, as well as user data are saved to a persistent disk
(2GB)
• Non-Persistent Desktop tests:
No changes are
persisted –
reboots (and refresh on user logoff)
changed the VM to its initial state.
Provisioning Settings
Provisioning Provision all desktops up-front
Datastores
•
PS6000XV tests: OS disks, persistent disks (if
applicable) and replica disks on same datastore. Each
datastore included a copy of the
master replica
image. Storage over-commit
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• PS6000XVS tests: OS disks along with persistent disks
(if applicable) on separate datastores from replica
disks. Only the replica datastore included copy of
master replica image. Storage over-commit set to
aggressive for linked clones.
set to moderate for
linked clones.
Table 3 VMware View Configuration Settings
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See Storage Overcommit for Linked-Clone Desktops section in the VMware View Online Library