VA-1110-FP-DESIGN—Flexpod Datacenter with Netapp All-Flash FAS and Vmware Horizon (With View)

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VA-1110-FP-DESIGN—Flexpod Datacenter with Netapp All-Flash FAS and Vmware Horizon (With View) NetApp Verified Architecture FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp All Flash FAS and VMware Horizon NVA Design David Arnette, NetApp June 2016 | NVA-1110-FP-DESIGN | Version 2.0 Reviewed by In collaboration with TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Executive Summary.............................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 New in This Release .......................................................................................................................................4 2 Program Summary................................................................................................................................ 6 2.1 FlexPod Program Benefits ..............................................................................................................................7 3 Solution Overview ................................................................................................................................ 9 3.1 Target Audience ..............................................................................................................................................9 3.2 Solution Technology .......................................................................................................................................9 3.3 Use Case Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 24 4 Technology Components .................................................................................................................. 25 4.1 Hardware Components ................................................................................................................................. 25 4.2 Software Components .................................................................................................................................. 25 5 Solution Design .................................................................................................................................. 26 5.1 Cisco UCS Design ........................................................................................................................................ 26 5.2 Cisco Nexus Network Design ........................................................................................................................ 28 5.3 NetApp AFF Storage Design......................................................................................................................... 31 5.4 VMware vSphere Design .............................................................................................................................. 36 5.5 VMware Horizon View Design ....................................................................................................................... 40 6 Design Considerations ...................................................................................................................... 46 7 Best Practices ..................................................................................................................................... 52 8 Solution Verification ........................................................................................................................... 53 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................ 54 Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................................. 54 Appendix .................................................................................................................................................... 54 References ................................................................................................................................................. 55 Cisco UCS ............................................................................................................................................................ 55 Cisco Nexus Networking ...................................................................................................................................... 56 NetApp AFF Storage ............................................................................................................................................ 56 VMware vSphere .................................................................................................................................................. 57 VMware Horizon View .......................................................................................................................................... 57 Interoperability Matrixes ....................................................................................................................................... 57 2 FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp All Flash FAS and VMware Horizon © 2016 NetApp, Inc. 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Version History ......................................................................................................................................... 57 Trademark Information .......................................................................................................................................... 58 Copyright Information ............................................................................................................................................ 58 LIST OF TABLES Table 1) Changes between NVA releases......................................................................................................................5 Table 2) Hardware components. .................................................................................................................................. 25 Table 3) Solution software components. ...................................................................................................................... 25 Table 4) NetApp AFF8000 storage system technical specifications. ............................................................................ 34 Table 5) NetApp VSC VM configuration. ...................................................................................................................... 35 Table 6) VMware vCenter Server Appliance VM configuration. .................................................................................... 39 Table 7) VMware Horizon View Connection VM example configuration. ...................................................................... 42 Table 8) Horizon View Composer VM example configuration. ..................................................................................... 43 Table 9) Microsoft SQL Server database VM example configuration. .......................................................................... 44 Table 10) Virtual desktop configuration. ....................................................................................................................... 45 Table 11) Design considerations. ................................................................................................................................. 46 Table 12) VDI best practices. ....................................................................................................................................... 52 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1) FlexPod component families. ..........................................................................................................................7 Figure 2) Cisco UCS Manager: Java client................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 3) Cisco UCS Manager: HTML5 client. ............................................................................................................. 13 Figure 4) ONTAP. ......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Figure 5) NetApp VSC example. .................................................................................................................................. 20 Figure 6) VMware vSphere feature overview (graphic supplied by VMware). .............................................................. 22 Figure 7) VMware Horizon View deployment (graphic supplied by VMware). .............................................................. 23 Figure 8) VMware Horizon View linked clone using View Composer. .......................................................................... 24 Figure 9) Example of discrete and port channel modes. .............................................................................................. 28 Figure 10) Scale-out storage with ONTAP on AFF. ...................................................................................................... 31 Figure 11) Distributed storage clusters. ........................................................................................................................ 32 Figure 12) ONTAP in a SAN-only environment. ........................................................................................................... 32 Figure 13) ONTAP in a NAS-only environment. ........................................................................................................... 33 Figure 14) Multipath HA to DS2246 shelves of SSD. ................................................................................................... 35 Figure 15) Cisco Nexus
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