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Storage: A single volume was used to host all the infrastructure virtual servers and mounted using the
native NFS option.
In addition a CIFS share was mounted so that .iso images could be attached through the virtual machine
virtual CD drive during installation and configuration processes.
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VDA Pool 1 and 2(8 XenServers configured in each pool, configuration the same; each hosting 50% of
desktop virtual machines).
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Networking:
◦ XenServer Management – Configured on NIC 1 (eth0) configured as Native VLAN
◦ Storage – Configured on NIC2 (eth1) on VLAN 166 (note this NIC has an IP address assigned which
is then authorized on NetApp which forces this NIC to be used).
◦ Windows Desktops hosted on VLAN 122 - ―External‖ network was defined, specifying VLAN 122 and
attached to NIC3 (eth2).
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Storage – 4 Volumes on NetApp FAS3170 were used to host the 3GB per clone ―Write-Cache‖ disk, each
was mounted to the Resource Pool using native NFS.
From the NetApp side we added access control to allow only the IP address of the Storage (VLAN166). For
example: